We: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

We, credited to Yevgeny Zamyatin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. (Translated by Gregory Zilboorg.) Read in English by mleigh 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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: We
• Author credits: Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 6:35:17

Catalogue topics

• English
• eugene zamiatin
• zamiatin
• dystopian society
• totalitarianism
• russian banned books
• banned

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Forword — 9:34
2. 01 - An Announcement—The Wisest of Lines—A Poem — 2:57
3. 02 - Ballet—Square Harmony—X — 10:28
4. 03 - A Coat—A Wall—The Tables — 8:33
5. 04 - The Wild Man with the Barometer—Epilepsy—If — 7:34
6. 05 - The Square—The Rulers of the World—An Agreeable and Useful Function — 5:44
7. 06 - An Accident—The Cursed "It's Clear"—Twenty-Four Hours — 12:11
8. 07 - An Eyelash—Taylor—Henbane and Lily of the Valley — 11:14
9. 08 - An Irrational Root—R-13—The Triangle — 9:57
10. 09 - Liturgy—Iambus—The Cast-Iron Hand — 7:48
11. 10 - A Letter—A Membrane—Hairy I — 15:14
12. 11 - No, I Can't; Let It Be without Headings! — 9:40
13. 12 - The Delimitation of the Infinite—Angel—Meditations on Poetry — 7:33
14. 13 - Fog—Thou—A Decidedly Absurd Adventure — 11:03
15. 14 - "Mine"—Impossible—A Cold Floor — 5:24
16. 15 - The Bell—The Mirror-Like Sea—I am to Burn Eternally — 8:46
17. 16 - Yellow—A Two-Dimensional Shadow—An Incurable Soul — 11:48
18. 17 - Through Glass—I Died—The Corridor — 12:00
19. 18 - Logical Debris—Wounds and Plaster—Never Again — 11:52
20. 19 - The Infinitesimal of the Third Order—From Under the Forehead— Over the Railing — 11:25
21. 20 - Discharge—The Material of an Idea—The Zero Rock — 5:58
22. 21 - The Duty of an Author—The Ice-Swells—The Most Difficult Love — 10:47
23. 22 - The Benumbed Waves—Everything is Improving—I Am a Microbe — 7:24
24. 23 - Flowers—The Dissolution of a Crystal—If Only (?) — 8:25

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