We
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(41 ratings)222 pages2021HarperCollins PublishersISBN 9780063068452
About this book
We tells of persons known as numbers living in the One State. All numbers live by a rigid timetable, performing exactly the same motions in time with one another in their all-glass environment.<br/><br/>We is the story of D-503, who is aroused from acceptance of the system by a strange woman, E-330. His transformation from conformity to radical action, his revolt against the state, and his eventual defeat are vividly chronicled in his diary.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 222
- ISBN
- 9780063068452
- Language
- English
About Unknown Author
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatina, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. Zamyatin is the author of a dystopian novel "Мы" (We) (1921). George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) must be partly derived from We. Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano (1952) he "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.
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