# We

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- Book: [We](https://www.bookquiver.com/yevgeny-zamyatin/we) ([We.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yevgeny-zamyatin/we.md))
- Authors: [Yevgueni Zamiatin](https://www.bookquiver.com/yevgeny-zamyatin)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-585-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1993-11-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity – until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 . 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