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Seminal proto-dystopia that was the inspiration for 1984 and Brave New World. Scathing satire of Stalinist Russia in the guise of a far-future epistolary narrative told by D-503, brilliant mathematician and the Builder of the Integral for the One State. I-330, radical and revolutionary Eve to D-503's Adam, opens his mind to the truth of their glass-walled existence. Zamyatin's clear and rapid image-heavy prose style propels the story along with mathematical metaphor. At only 200 pages, it's like
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