We

In a glass-encased city of the future, D-503, a loyal mathematician and spacecraft engineer of the all-powerful One State, begins keeping a diary — and in doing so, unwittingly chronicles his own unravelling. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society where individuality is a crime, every citizen is known by a number rather than a name, and the Benefactor rules with absolute, algorithmic authority — until one woman ignites in D-503 a dangerous and forbidden sense of self. Written in 1920 and suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, We stands as the pioneering archetype of the dystopian novel, a direct precursor to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World. Zamyatin writes with razor-sharp satirical precision, wielding mathematical metaphor and fragmented prose to mirror a fractured consciousness awakening to its own imprisonment. This Penguin edition, translated by Clarence Brown, renders Zamyatin's visionary Russian into urgent, luminous English — leaving the reader to wonder whether the walls of their own world are made of glass too.