Book Debate Guide: Atlas Shrugged

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Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Russian-born writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the USA. It was Rand's last work of fiction before concentrating her writings exclusively on philosophy. Along with The Fountainhead, it is one of her two most famous novels and is considered her magnum opus. Its theme (as stated by Rand) is "the importance of the individual's reasoning mind in human life."

It is a highly philosophical and allegorical story that deals with themes of Rand's own Objectivism, though she was not yet known as a philosopher when it was written. It is also one of the longest novels ever written, totalling one-thousand pages or more (depending on edition of the publication).

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