Atlas Shrugged (Scott Brick, chaptered, 64k) – Ayn Rand Free Audiobook

Written by Ayn Rand
Read by Scott Brick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Atlas Shrugged (1957) The 35th Anniversery Edition

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: June 22, 2006
Duration: 62:57:06

Leonard Peikoff – Introduction of 35th anniversary edition….1991

Critics wrote…”Atlas Shrugged is absurd but strangely compelling. Ayn Rand’s libertarian rant is unpleasant, daft and deeply flawed. I hated it – but I couldn’t put it down….”

“Atlas Shrugged includes elements of science fiction, mystery, and romance, and it contains Rand’s most extensive in any of her works of fiction. …The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations…..”

In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts?

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, he sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? The answers will be revealed once you discover the reason behind the baffling events that wreak havoc on the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book.

Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. Atlas Shrugged emerged as a premier moral apologia for capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who had never heard capitalism defended in other than technical terms.

Atlas Shrugged received largely negative reviews after its first publication, but achieved enduring popularity and ongoing sales in the following decades. After several unsuccessful attempts to adapt the novel for film or television, a film trilogy based on it was released from 2011 to 2014. These films were critical and box office failures

…. Narrator Scott Brick takes listeners on a journey so extraordinary they’ll hardly notice the book’s length. While his performance offers little in the way of theatrics, Brick is capable of garnering sympathy and, perhaps most importantly, devout attention for Rand’s plot and characters. On the surface, Brick’s voice is a cool, unrelenting force determined to capture every facet of Rand’s complex story. But amid his calm and collected delivery, he taps into a more colorful emotional palette that will keep listeners involved. Brick’s subtle delivery holds far more than meets the ear. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2009

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