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, 285 pages, translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilber Guerneyt, introduction by Michael Glenny, jacket design by Stanley Chapman
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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.
About the Author
Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in Russia in 1884. Arrested during the abortive 1905 revolution, he was exiled twice from St. Petersburg, then given amnesty in 1913. We, composed in 1920 and 1921, elicited attacks from party-line critics and writers. In 1929, the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers launched an all-out attack against him. Denied the right to publish his work, he requested permission to leave Russia, which Stalin granted in 1931. Zamyatin went to Paris, where he died in 1937.
Mirra Ginsburg is a distinguished translator of Russian and Yiddish works by such well-known authors as Mikhail Bulgakov, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Editor and translator of three anthologies of Soviet science fiction, she has also edited and translated A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin, and History of Soviet Literature by Vera Alexandrova.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape (London)
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 022461794X
- ISBN 13 9780224617949
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages285
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in hardcover with good jacket. Small bumps to corners, name on endpaper. Small stain to fore-edge of page block. Jacket has some rubbing with a tear on bottom edge of front cover, spine is faded, chipping at fore-edge folds, price-clipped with a price sticker present near bottom edge of front flap. Seller Inventory # 043791
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 1970 Jonathan Cape first UK hardcover translation. A nice copy; very good condition. in good dustjacket. Light reading wear, a little wear to edges of dustjacket and a small amount of scuffing to corners. This landmark novel was first published in the 1920s and is thought to have been the model both for 'Brave New World' and '1984'. The book is housed in a custom made slipcase covered in purple cloth and lined with cream acid-free archival paper. Seller Inventory # 0G-C590-KNN3
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "We", a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution. In 1921, "We" became the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board. Ultimately, Zamyatin arranged for "We" to be smuggled to the West for publication. This is the first British edition published by Jonathan cape. Clean, crisp and free of inscriptions in a very good dust jacket protected in archival Brodart cover. Dust jacket has original price (not clipped). Minor rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket, first British edition. book. Seller Inventory # 275249
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy in like price clipped dust jacket of the First English Edition. Originally published in a small print run by Dutton in 1924, We is one of the first examples of what we call classic Dystopian novels along with 1984, Brave New World, Anthem, The Iron Heel, and It Can't Happen Here. A fine copy in like dust jacket. Un-read by all appearances. Purple top stain is clean and bright. Minor edge wear to the lower edge of the dust jacket is the only thing I can note. Clean and un marked with bright pages and a straight un-bumped binding. And lacks the usual spine fading and soiling to the spine we are used to. One of the cleanest examples we've seen. Seller Inventory # 000343
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