{"product_id":"yevgeny-zamyatin-we","title":"Yevgeny Zamyatin - We - يفغيني زامياتين - نحن","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Aldous Huxley's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrave New World.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession and writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist government by being a Bolshevik, and an enemy of the Soviet government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative freedom. He wrote short stories, plays and essays, but his masterpiece is\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1920-21 and soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world. It first appeared in Russia only in 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like George Orwell's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'the best single work of science fiction yet written'\u003cbr\u003eUrsula K. LeGuin, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle and cannot put back again'\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAge - Adult\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimension - \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1.91 x 14.83 x 19.91 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePages - 256\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAuthor - Yevgeny Zamyatin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher - Penguin Classics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormat - Paperback\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34194749194371,"sku":"9780140185850","price":4.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/3802\/6883\/products\/9780140185850.jpg?v=1689166203","url":"https:\/\/spectrawidebook.store\/en-sa\/products\/yevgeny-zamyatin-we","provider":"Spectrawide Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}