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(3.9 stars; 13 reviews)

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. (6 hr 35 min)

Chapters

Forword 9:34 Read by mleigh
An Announcement—The Wisest of Lines—A Poem 2:57 Read by mleigh
Ballet—Square Harmony—X 10:28 Read by mleigh
A Coat—A Wall—The Tables 8:33 Read by mleigh
The Wild Man with the Barometer—Epilepsy—If 7:34 Read by mleigh
The Square—The Rulers of the World—An Agreeable and Useful Function 5:44 Read by mleigh
An Accident—The Cursed "It's Clear"—Twenty-Four Hours 12:11 Read by mleigh
An Eyelash—Taylor—Henbane and Lily of the Valley 11:14 Read by mleigh
An Irrational Root—R-13—The Triangle 9:57 Read by mleigh
Liturgy—Iambus—The Cast-Iron Hand 7:48 Read by mleigh
A Letter—A Membrane—Hairy I 15:14 Read by mleigh
No, I Can't; Let It Be without Headings! 9:40 Read by mleigh
The Delimitation of the Infinite—Angel—Meditations on Poetry 7:33 Read by mleigh
Fog—Thou—A Decidedly Absurd Adventure 11:03 Read by mleigh
"Mine"—Impossible—A Cold Floor 5:24 Read by mleigh
The Bell—The Mirror-Like Sea—I am to Burn Eternally 8:46 Read by mleigh
Yellow—A Two-Dimensional Shadow—An Incurable Soul 11:48 Read by mleigh
Through Glass—I Died—The Corridor 12:00 Read by mleigh
Logical Debris—Wounds and Plaster—Never Again 11:52 Read by mleigh
The Infinitesimal of the Third Order—From Under the Forehead— Over the Railing 11:25 Read by mleigh
Discharge—The Material of an Idea—The Zero Rock 5:58 Read by mleigh
The Duty of an Author—The Ice-Swells—The Most Difficult Love 10:47 Read by mleigh
The Benumbed Waves—Everything is Improving—I Am a Microbe 7:24 Read by mleigh
Flowers—The Dissolution of a Crystal—If Only (?) 8:25 Read by mleigh
The Limit of the Function—Easter—To Cross Out Everything 7:21 Read by mleigh
The Descent from Heaven—The Greatest Catastrophe in History—The Known—Is Ended 14:14 Read by mleigh
The World Does Exist—Rash—Forty-One Degrees Centigrade 7:29 Read by mleigh
No Headings, It is Impossible 13:16 Read by mleigh
Both of Them—Entropy and Energy—The Opaque Part of the Body 14:39 Read by mleigh
Threads of the Face—Sprouts—An Unnatural Compresssion 5:28 Read by mleigh
The Last Number—Galileo's Mistake—Would It Not Be Better 7:21 Read by mleigh
The Great Operation—I Forgave Everything—The Collision of Trains 16:34 Read by mleigh
I Do Not Believe—Tractors—A Little Human Splinter 12:10 Read by mleigh
This without a Synopsis, Hastily, the Last 2:16 Read by mleigh
The Forgiven Ones—A Sunny Night—A Radio-Walkyrie 22:15 Read by mleigh
In a Ring—A Carrot—A Murder 12:46 Read by mleigh
Empty Pages—The Christian God—About My Mother 8:22 Read by mleigh
Infusorian—Doomsday—Her Room 8:20 Read by mleigh
I Don’t Know What Title—Perhaps the Whole Synopsis May Be Called a Cast-off Cig… 5:09 Read by mleigh
The End 10:44 Read by mleigh
Facts—The Bell—I am Certain 3:32 Read by mleigh