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Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937)
Translated by Gregory Zilboorg (1890 - 1959)

We is considered to be one of the first dystopian novels and the inspiration for later novels in the genre such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldus Huxley's Brave New World. The story takes place in a future totalitarian world where conformity is good and individuality bad. It is written from the perspective of one of the members of this society who sees all he knows and loves falling apart due to others' quest for freedom of thought and action.

This book addresses the perpetual conflict between between independent individualism and mob mentality.

This work, by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin has the distinction of being the first book banned by the Soviet Union.

Genre(s): Science Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Forword	mleigh	00:09:34
Play 01	An Announcement—The Wisest of Lines—A Poem	mleigh	00:02:57
Play 02	Ballet—Square Harmony—X	mleigh	00:10:28
Play 03	A Coat—A Wall—The Tables	mleigh	00:08:33
Play 04	The Wild Man with the Barometer—Epilepsy—If	mleigh	00:07:34
Play 05	The Square—The Rulers of the World—An Agreeable and Useful Function	mleigh	00:05:44
Play 06	An Accident—The Cursed "It's Clear"—Twenty-Four Hours	mleigh	00:12:11
Play 07	An Eyelash—Taylor—Henbane and Lily of the Valley	mleigh	00:11:14
Play 08	An Irrational Root—R-13—The Triangle	mleigh	00:09:57
Play 09	Liturgy—Iambus—The Cast-Iron Hand	mleigh	00:07:48
Play 10	A Letter—A Membrane—Hairy I	mleigh	00:15:14
Play 11	No, I Can't; Let It Be without Headings!	mleigh	00:09:40
Play 12	The Delimitation of the Infinite—Angel—Meditations on Poetry	mleigh	00:07:33
Play 13	Fog—Thou—A Decidedly Absurd Adventure	mleigh	00:11:03
Play 14	"Mine"—Impossible—A Cold Floor	mleigh	00:05:24
Play 15	The Bell—The Mirror-Like Sea—I am to Burn Eternally	mleigh	00:08:46
Play 16	Yellow—A Two-Dimensional Shadow—An Incurable Soul	mleigh	00:11:48
Play 17	Through Glass—I Died—The Corridor	mleigh	00:12:00
Play 18	Logical Debris—Wounds and Plaster—Never Again	mleigh	00:11:52
Play 19	The Infinitesimal of the Third Order—From Under the Forehead— Over the Railing	mleigh	00:11:25
Play 20	Discharge—The Material of an Idea—The Zero Rock	mleigh	00:05:58
Play 21	The Duty of an Author—The Ice-Swells—The Most Difficult Love	mleigh	00:10:47
Play 22	The Benumbed Waves—Everything is Improving—I Am a Microbe	mleigh	00:07:24
Play 23	Flowers—The Dissolution of a Crystal—If Only (?)	mleigh	00:08:25
Play 24	The Limit of the Function—Easter—To Cross Out Everything	mleigh	00:07:21
Play 25	The Descent from Heaven—The Greatest Catastrophe in History—The Known—Is Ended	mleigh	00:14:14
Play 26	The World Does Exist—Rash—Forty-One Degrees Centigrade	mleigh	00:07:29
Play 27	No Headings, It is Impossible	mleigh	00:13:16
Play 28	Both of Them—Entropy and Energy—The Opaque Part of the Body	mleigh	00:14:39
Play 29	Threads of the Face—Sprouts—An Unnatural Compresssion	mleigh	00:05:28
Play 30	The Last Number—Galileo's Mistake—Would It Not Be Better	mleigh	00:07:21
Play 31	The Great Operation—I Forgave Everything—The Collision of Trains	mleigh	00:16:34
Play 32	I Do Not Believe—Tractors—A Little Human Splinter	mleigh	00:12:10
Play 33	This without a Synopsis, Hastily, the Last	mleigh	00:02:16
Play 34	The Forgiven Ones—A Sunny Night—A Radio-Walkyrie	mleigh	00:22:15
Play 35	In a Ring—A Carrot—A Murder	mleigh	00:12:46
Play 36	Empty Pages—The Christian God—About My Mother	mleigh	00:08:22
Play 37	Infusorian—Doomsday—Her Room	mleigh	00:08:20
Play 38	I Don’t Know What Title—Perhaps the Whole Synopsis May Be Called a Cast-off Cigarette-butt	mleigh	00:05:09
Play 39	The End	mleigh	00:10:44
Play 40	Facts—The Bell—I am Certain	mleigh	00:03:32

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