Atlas Shrugged

This annotated text both summarizes and analyzes Ayn Rand's epic novel, Atlas Shrugged. In addition, the Appendix singles out the significance of certain Characters, Companies, Concepts, Places, Technologies, and other things in the novel.

Cover of the first edition of Atlas Shrugged.

Analyses and summaries

Atlas Shrugged is divided into three parts, with ten chapters in each part. Chapters are divided into any number of sections.

Part 1 - Non-Contradiction The Theme The Chain The Top and the Bottom The Immovable Movers The Climax of the D'Anconias The Non-Commercial The Exploiters and the Exploited The John Galt Line The Sacred and the Profane Wyatt's Torch

Part 2 - Either-Or The Man who Belonged on Earth The Aristocracy of Pull White Blackmail The Sanction of the Victim Account Overdrawn Miracle Metal The Moratorium on Brains By Our Love The Face without Pain or Fear or Guilt The Sign of the Dollar

Part 3 - A Is A Atlantis The Utopia of Greed Anti-Greed Anti-Life Their Brothers' Keepers The Concerto of Deliverance "This is John Galt Speaking" The Egoist The Generator In the Name of the Best within Us

All quotes are taken from Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged (New York: Penguin 1992.).

The author of this book is Ayn Rand. Other works by Ayn Rand include The Fountainhead, Anthem and We the Living.

Components

• Characters
• Companies
• Concepts
• Places
• Technology
• Things

External links

• Chapter-by-chapter Analyses
• Notes on Galt's Speech