We
A Novel
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Fiction.
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's 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 t...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Fiction.
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Michael McFaul
“I read this novel in high school in Bozeman, Montana completely changed the trajectory of my thinking and later career. To the Bozeman Senior High School librarian who acquired and then displayed the book (I would have never seen it otherwise), thank you !”
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