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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg
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We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg
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We (Paperback, Main - Canons)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Bela Shayevich; Introduction by Margaret Atwood; Contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell
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The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened
Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where
surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic
rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the
ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to
new ideas of love, sex and freedom. A foundational work of
dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, WE is a book of radical
imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power,
machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire.
In this brilliant new translation, it is both a warning and a hope
for a better world.
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We (Hardcover, Main)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Bela Shayevich; Introduction by Margaret Atwood; Contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell
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The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened
Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where
surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic
rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the
ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to
new ideas of love, sex and freedom. A foundational work of
dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, WE is a book of radical
imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power,
machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire.
It is both a warning and a hope for a better world. This new
edition also includes Ursula K. Le Guin's essay 'The Stalin in the
Soul' on the enduring influence of Zamyatin's masterpiece, and
George Orwell's 1946 review of WE.
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We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Clarence Brown; Introduction by Clarence Brown; Notes by Clarence Brown; Foreword by Masha Gessen
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Contributions by Mint Editions
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We (1924) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written between
1920 and 1921, the novel reflects its author's growing
disillusionment with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during
the Russian Civil War. Smuggled out of the country, the manuscript
was translated into English by Gregory Zilboorg and published in
New York in 1924. In a series of diary entries, D-503, an engineer
in charge of building the spaceship Integral, reflects on life in
the One State. In this totalitarian society, people live within
glass structures under direct, constant surveillance by the
Benefactor and his operatives. When he is not working on the
Integral, D-503 visits with his state-appointed lover O-90 and
spends time with his friend R-13, a poet who reads his works at
executions. On a walk with O-90, D-503 meets a free-spirited woman
named I-330, who flirts with him and eventually convinces him to
transgress the rules he has followed his whole life. Although he
plans to turn her over to authorities, he cannot bring himself to
betray her trust, and begins to have dreams for the first time in
his life. Struggling to balance his duty to the state with his
strange new feelings, D-503 moves closer and closer to the limits
of law and life. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Yevgeny
Zamyatin's We is a classic of Russian literature and dystopian
science fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Hugh Aplin
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We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to
submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule
of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign
of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green
walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to
spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man
called D-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his
mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it
should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter
the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly
charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel -
here presented in Hugh Aplin's crisp translation - is not only an
indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the
works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration
of much of twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous
future that may still lay ahead of us.
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We - A Novel (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Bela Shayevich
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was... WE In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul. A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Clarence Brown
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'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le
Guin The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society,
'OneState', where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia
for decades, it is a chilling vision of a world enslaved by
technology. 'Zamyatin's parable looked forward to climate change
and surveillance culture ... to peer into its future is to see
modernity's reflection gazing darkly back' Economist
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We (Paperback, Revised)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Introduction by Clarence Brown; Translated by Clarence Brown
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A superb new translation of the classic dystopian novel Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor'. Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.
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Gregory Zilboorg; Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Contributions by Gregory Zilboorg; H. G. Wells
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg; Edited by Erekson Holt
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We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg; Edited by Erekson Holt
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We (Paperback)
Yevgeny Zamyatin, Eugene Zamiatin, Gregory Zilboorg
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Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg
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Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Gregory Zilboorg
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