{"title":"Books by Yevgeny Zamyatin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780140185850","title":"We","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's \u003ci\u003e1984 \u003c\/i\u003eand foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e journalist Masha Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin's \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. 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. 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It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e and Huxley's \u003ci\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWE \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. 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D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanned on its publication in Russia in 1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223112331637,"sku":"9780099511434","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099511434_3208c688-a87c-48a1-a3b2-2d66a628fe97.jpg?v=1786011589"},{"product_id":"9780241458747","title":"We","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. 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