First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless -numbers, - the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
- ISBN10 0670753181
- ISBN13 9780670753185
- Publish Date 1 May 1972
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 204
- Language English