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As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.

The citizens of the One State live in a condition of ''mathematically infallible happiness''. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion.

Banned on its publication in Russia in 1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.



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This is a book to look out for -- George Orwell
Zamyatin reminds us, Adam did not wish to be happy, he wished to be "free" -- Anthony Burgess
Precursor to much more famous works by Huxley and Orwell, this antidote to totalitarianism, written by someone who genuinely knew what that sort of existence was like, is the anti-Stalinist dystopia to beat them all - even Brave New World, 1984, and Koestler's Darkness at Noon -- Toby Green
Two of the most iconic novels in the English language - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell - owe an enormous debt to Zamyatin. We is the ur-text of science-fiction dystopias...the product of a powerful imagination * Wall Street Journal *
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century -- Irving Howe

We Introduction by Will Self

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    A Paperback / softback by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Will Self, Natasha Randall

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 31 December 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099511434
      978-0099511434
      ISBN-10 0099511436
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.

      The citizens of the One State live in a condition of ''mathematically infallible happiness''. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion.

      Banned on its publication in Russia in 1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.



      Trade Review
      This is a book to look out for -- George Orwell
      Zamyatin reminds us, Adam did not wish to be happy, he wished to be "free" -- Anthony Burgess
      Precursor to much more famous works by Huxley and Orwell, this antidote to totalitarianism, written by someone who genuinely knew what that sort of existence was like, is the anti-Stalinist dystopia to beat them all - even Brave New World, 1984, and Koestler's Darkness at Noon -- Toby Green
      Two of the most iconic novels in the English language - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell - owe an enormous debt to Zamyatin. We is the ur-text of science-fiction dystopias...the product of a powerful imagination * Wall Street Journal *
      One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century -- Irving Howe

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