Industrialists start disappearing, production falters, and a question circulates that nobody in authority will answer directly.
Ayn Rand's long novel follows Dagny Taggart as she tries to keep a railroad running while regulation tightens and the country's most capable people quietly withdraw their work. The story carries Rand's philosophy of objectivism openly, including a lengthy speech that sets out its principles in full, and the book has remained an argument in itself since publication. This Penguin mass market paperback runs to 1096 pages.
Handy details:
• A long novel combining industrial drama with explicit philosophical argument
• Central figures drawn from railroads, steel and engineering
• The fullest fictional statement of Rand's objectivist ideas
• 1096 pages in mass market paperback
For readers of long classic fiction and philosophical novels, published by Penguin and sold at Boipoka.