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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Mar 2011 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Grover Gardner

About this audiobook

Set in the twenty-sixth century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState, ruled over by the all-powerful "Benefactor." Recognized as the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984, We is the archetype of the modern dystopia, or anti-Utopia: a great prose poem detailing the fate that might befall us all if we surrender our individual selves to some collective dream of technology and fail in the vigilance that is the price of freedom. Clarence 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.

Ratings and reviews

Engaging story that only pulls you deeper the further you read. One of the must reads if you enjoy the genre.

The grandfather of the Dystopian genre.

About the author

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval architect by trade; as a writer, he is best-known for his dystopian masterpiece We, a major influence on George Orwell's 1984.

Grover Gardner was named one of the Best Voices of the Century as well as a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, and he has received over twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has also won two coveted Audie Awards, as well as being a three-time finalist.