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The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwells 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia
Yevgeny Zamyatins We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand
In a glassenclosed city of absolute straight lines ruled over by the allpowerful Benefactor the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity until D503 a mathematician who dreams in numbers makes a discovery he has an individual soul Set in the twentysixth century AD We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwells 1984 and Aldous Huxleys Brave New World
It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom yet is also a powerful exciting and vivid work of science fiction
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