We Mass market paperbound - 1983
by Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Used
In the One State of the Great Benefactor, individuals have been replaced by numbers and passions subdued. But when the chief architect of the spaceship "Integral, " known as D-503, has a chance meeting with the beautiful I-330, he stumbles upon an unexpected discovery that threatens all he believes about himself and the One State.
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- Title We
- Author Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York
- Date 1983-08-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3947683-20
- ISBN 9780380633135 / 0380633132
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 in (17.02 x 10.67 x 2.03 cm)
- Reading level 800
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Soviet Union
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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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- Ingram Paperback Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 37
