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By: Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bela Shayevich - translator, Margaret Atwood - introduction, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell
Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Margaret Atwood, Toby Jones
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The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.

A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, We is a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. It is both a warning and a hope for a better world.

This new edition also includes Ursula K. Le Guin's essay 'The Stalin in the Soul' on the enduring influence of Zamyatin's masterpiece, and George Orwell's 1946 review of We.

©2020 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bela Shayevich, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, George Orwell (P)2021 Canongate Books Classics Dystopian Science Fiction Fiction

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Great discovery, Toby Jones reading drew me to try this book (he's always a good reader), and I'm so glad I did. It's over 100 years old but feels so current.

Fabulous - it inspired Brave New World and 1984

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Loved the audio of this famous precursor to Orwell. Brilliantly read by the wonderful Toby Jones. The accompanying essays by Ursula Le Guin and the translator each equally intelligent and insightful. Highly recommended.

Fascinating precursor to 1984, beautifully read

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If you ever read and enjoyed 1984, or Brave new world, you almost certainly need to read this.

Fascinating, and useful

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Honestly this story is almost worth reading for the intro by Margaret Atwood and the commentary by Orwell and LeGuin at the end.

It’s an interesting take on the dystopian society which has convinced itself that it is a utopia, and a deeper view that Brave New World managed.

Thought provoking early 20th century dystopian story.

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A good performance, though I can't help feel there was a touch of Alan Bennett about the performance of the character i, which made her seem much cosier than I think she was written.

Sometimes hard to follow, but good.

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