Father's Day Gift Ideas in Automotive Corporate Deals Page Best Books of the Month Shop Women's Summer Dresses Shop Women's Summer Dresses Shop Women's Cloud Drive Photos nav_sap_cbcc_7_fly_beacon Hilary DUff Storm Fire Phone, Only $179 Momentum Fire TV Shop Father's Day Gifts Save on Essentials to Beat the Heat Shop all services Learn More insideOut insideOut insideOut $40 Off Fire HD 7 Kids Edition All-New Kindle Paperwhite Call of Duty Black Ops Shop Father's Day in Outdoor Recreation on Amazon Shop Father's Day across Amazon Learn more
We and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more
Qty:1
  • List Price: $15.00
  • Save: $2.81 (19%)
FREE Shipping on orders over $35.
In stock but may require an extra 1-2 days to process.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Gift-wrap available.
We has been added to your Cart
Used: Good | Details
Sold by apex_media
Fulfilled by Amazon
Condition: Used: Good
Comment: Ships direct from Amazon! Qualifies for Prime Shipping and FREE standard shipping for orders over $35. Overnight and 2 day shipping available!
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon
Flip to back Flip to front
Listen Playing... Paused   You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more
See all 2 images

We Paperback – August 1, 1993

by
Yevgeny Zamyatin (Author)
› Visit Amazon's Yevgeny Zamyatin Page
Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
See search results for this author
Are you an author? Learn about Author Central
Yevgeny Zamyatin (Author),
Clarence Brown (Translator, Introduction)
› Visit Amazon's Clarence Brown Page
Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
See search results for this author
Are you an author? Learn about Author Central
Clarence Brown (Translator, Introduction)
116 customer reviews
See all 31 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle
"Please retry"
$0.99
— —
Hardcover, Large Print
"Please retry"
—
$87.46 $44.99
Paperback, Large Print
"Please retry"
$8.97
$8.97 $7.16
Paperback, August 1, 1993
$12.19
$5.87 $1.89
Mass Market Paperback
"Please retry"
—
$15.03 $0.01
Unknown Binding
"Please retry"
—
— $12.00
The Festival of Insignificance: A Novel by Milan Kundera
"The Festival of Insignificance," by Milan Kundera
From the best-selling author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," comes an enchanting novel—the culmination of his life's work. Learn more | See related books
$12.19 FREE Shipping on orders over $35. In stock but may require an extra 1-2 days to process. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Frequently Bought Together

We + Brave New World
Price for both: $21.00

One of these items ships sooner than the other.

Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
Back
  1. Omon Ra
    Victor Pelevin
    45
    Paperback
    $10.97 Prime
  2. Brave New World
    Aldous Huxley
    1,763
    Paperback
    $8.81 Prime
  3. We (Modern Library Classics)
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    69
    Paperback
    $11.71 Prime
  4. The Master and Margarita
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    533
    Paperback
    $10.37 Prime
  5. The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    78
    Paperback
    $12.34 Prime
  6. Heart of a Dog
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    95
    Paperback
    $11.94 Prime
Next

Editorial Reviews

Review

“[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism—human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself—makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].”—George Orwell

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
See all Editorial Reviews
NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE
Image
Looking for the Audiobook Edition?
Tell us that you'd like this title to be produced as an audiobook, and we'll alert our colleagues at Audible.com. If you are the author or rights holder, let Audible help you produce the audiobook: Learn more at ACX.com.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 221 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics (August 1, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140185852
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140185850
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price?

Customer Reviews

4.1 out of 5 stars
5 star
51%
4 star
22%
3 star
19%
2 star
4%
1 star
4%
See all 116 customer reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers
Write a customer review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

86 of 93 people found the following review helpful
A Depressing Dystopian Future
By Jeffrey Leach HALL OF FAME on May 31, 2003
Format: Paperback
Yevgeny Zamyatin, translator Clarence Brown tells us, had an enormous influence on George Orwell's seminal dystopian novel "1984." "We," written in 1924 as the turmoil of the Bolshevik revolution was in its final stages, definitely shares several similarities with Orwell's bleak novel. Most notable is the relationship between Zamyatin's protagonist, D-503, with a corrupting woman, a relationship that mirrors Orwell's Winston and Julia. But where Orwell was British, Zamyatin was Russian and writing in a time and place where dystopian visions were quickly becoming a reality. The author of "We" eventually left Russia forever (he actually wrote to Uncle Joe Stalin requesting permission to leave! What a brave soul!) and "We" did not appear in print in the Soviet Union until 1988. It is not difficult to see why: "We" is deeply subversive to totalitarian forms of government.
Zamyatin's novel, described in the Penguin edition as a "great prose poem," takes place in the twenty-sixth century in a geographical place unknown to the reader. The narrator of the story, the previously mentioned D-503, is writing down his experiences as part of a grand scheme to launch a rocket ship into outer space. D-503 is the chief mathematician of this project, named INTEGRAL, and the goal of the mission is to find life on other planets in order to bring them "elevation" through totalitarian government. The narrator's journal will accompany the rocket ship along with poems, letters, and other propaganda singing the praises of "OneState," which is the moniker of the ruling apparatus in D-503's world. OneState, with the mysterious "Benefactor" at the helm, rules with an iron fist through an intricate web of time management principles based on Frederick Winslow Taylor's contributions to the industrial revolution.Read more ›
2 Comments Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
This edition reproduces the first English translation
By "the_drone" on November 19, 2000
Format: Hardcover
I'm writing this note just to alert readers that this large-print, hardcover edition of Zamiatin's We is not the translation by Mirra Ginsburg. I bought this book thinking it was Ginsburg's modern translation; she also translated his stories and essays, both great books. This particular edition actually uses the very first translation from Russian into English, by Gregory Zilboorg, published originally in 1924. This is the version Huxley, Orwell and Rand actually read; this is the version that influenced their respective dystopias: Brave New World, 1984 and Anthem. I have no means to compare this edition to Ginsburg's, but so far it appears to be just as readable. The question is: is it complete? In any case, the book itself is nice: a large-print, hardcover edition.
1 Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
32 of 36 people found the following review helpful
A Clear Case of the Apprentice Surpassing his Master
By J C E Hitchcock on July 20, 2006
Format: Paperback
This book was written in 1920 and immediately banned by the Soviet authorities. (This was four years before Lenin's death and the start of Stalin's ascent to power. The Trotskyite idea that the pre-Stalinist Soviet Union was a free socialist Utopia, which permitted freedom of thought and artistic expression, is a myth).

It is, of course, easy to see why the book fell foul of the Leninist regime. The Soviets might not have taken offence at a dystopian novel if it had been set in a reactionary capitalist society like the one featured in Jack London's "The Iron Heel". "We", however, is set several centuries in the future in a totalitarian state known as OneState. (The preferred rendition of the translator Clarence Brown). OneState is an immense city state, cut off from the outside world by a glass wall. It is ruled by an all-powerful dictator known as the Benefactor, with the aid of a secret police known as the Guardians. Citizens are known as "Numbers"; they do not have personal names but rather a series of numbers preceded by a letter (consonants for men, vowels for women). Thus the hero of the story is known as D-503 and the heroine I-330. Their lives are controlled by a Table of Hours which dictates what every Number should be doing at any given time; certain hours are for work, others for sleep, others for recreation. (The Table is based upon the theories of the American management expert Frederick Winslow Taylor, which suggests Zamyatin's satire may have been targeted at capitalism as well as Soviet Communism). All buildings are made of glass to allow the regime more easily to monitor the activities of their occupants. Political dissent and disobedience to orders are punishable by death.

The state ideology is a form of perverted rationalism.Read more ›
1 Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
34 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Best of Dystopian Trilogy
By Christopher D. Helmkamp on April 3, 2000
Format: Paperback
Zamyatin's WE, like Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984, is a classic science-fiction novel that unmasks the chilling realities of the erosion of individuality. What makes Zamyatin's account more compelling, however, is that he wrote the novel from within the fledgeling Socialist state of 1920's Russia (it wasn't even published there until 1988). Therefore, Zamyatin can lay claim to a firsthand understanding of the fallacies of the Soviet collective unlike the eccentric British intellectuals Orwell and Huxley. Although Zamyatin's language, at times, is a bit peculiar by nature, this Twentieth Century Classics translation is perhaps the easiest to understand, as the translator shied away from word use that would not register smoothly in the mind of a contemporary English reader. If you have read Brave New World or 1984, you will certainly want to compliment them by reading this excellent masterpiece in 20th century European literature!
Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback. If this review is inappropriate, please let us know.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Most Recent Customer Reviews

Sorry to have be the dumb kid telling the emperor he is wearing no...

Sorry to have be the dumb kid telling the emperor he is wearing no clothes, but I simply didn't understand what was going on.

Published 1 day ago by Stephen K Jones
A Classic Dystopian - but somewhat dated

So...I finished the book last night, and I have very mixed feelings about it. I definately think it's a classic, and for when it was written it has held up fairly well. Read more

Published 6 days ago by Jane Morris Coons
A Highly Artistic, Stylized, and Somewhat Complex Work of Art

I am conflicted about this book. In certain ways, I think it is a great novel. It is a complex, very stylized, novel. There is a lot of sybolism that I did not understand. Read more

Published 11 days ago by Francis C. Donnelly
Highly recommend.

Interesting, short read. A first person account of life in a utopian society set approximately one thousand years into the future. Read more

Published 1 month ago by The fourth Doctor
Incomprehensible

I absolutely hated this book. Maybe there's something wrong with my brain, but I could barely understand any of it. The constant use of elipses.... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Andi Brown
We

I prefer this book to Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) but not 1984 (George Orwell). Both authors were inspired by We and if you're interested in reading a well written dystopian... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Kathy
Timeless for sure

This is a very detailed, meticulous book that extrapalates important details as opposed to key events.

Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer
Five Stars

Great

Published 2 months ago by dalisurreal
if you can ignore the typos you should be fine.

The story was okay but this Kindle edition had a lot of typos in it.... if you can ignore the typos you should be fine.

Published 3 months ago by Sammy
Five Stars

:)

Published 3 months ago by STEPHANIE

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more
We
This item: We
Price: $12.19
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
Set up a giveaway

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

Want to discover more products? Check out these pages to see more: mirrored wardrobes, 1920s mathematics