![]() The book immediately became a best seller, debuting at #13 on the New York Times bestseller list and peaking at #3, remaining on the list for twenty- two consecutive weeks. She considered it her magnum opus, and from the effort to create that work, her philosophy of Objectivism emerged. After its publication, she continued to write popular philosophy, but never again in full- length fictional form. Rand, not initially taken with the idea replied, "What if I went on strike? What if all the creative minds of the world went on strike?" From this, the concept for the book was born.Ītlas Shrugged is the last of Rand's novels. The book was first conceived in 1943 when a friend suggested that Rand would have more success popularizing her social philosophies if she wove them into fiction. When Ayn Rand published Atlas Shrugged in 1957, it was her intent ".to show how desperately the world needs prime movers and how viciously it treats them" and "what happens to a world without them". Creator StoryWeaver | Co- Creator Dramatica ![]()
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