An edition of We the living (1936)

We the living

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An edition of We the living (1936)

We the living

  • 3.60 ·
  • 10 Ratings
  • 34 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 13 Have read

This book is about a young woman named Kira Argounova who is trying to live during the Soviet takeover of Russia. Kira wants to be an engineer, but the lack of freedom in Soviet Russia oppresses her. She becomes involved in a love triangle with Comrade Taganov and the mysterious Leo. The book is a philosophical exposition of the crushing nature of the collectivist philosophy, which oppresses the producers.

“Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
446

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Edition Availability
Cover of: We the Living
We the Living
2011, Signet Books, Signet
in English
Cover of: We the living
We the living
2009, New American Library
in English
Cover of: We the living
We the living
1995, Penguin, Signet
in English - 60th anniversary ed.
Cover of: We the living
We the living
1995, Dutton
in English - 60th anniversary ed.
Cover of: We the living
We the living
1983, New American Library
in English
Cover of: We the living
We the living
1959, New American Library
in English

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Published in

New York

Edition Notes

Series
A Signet book -- AE5860, Signet book -- AE5860.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PS3535.A547 W4 1983

The Physical Object

Pagination
446 pages ;
Number of pages
446

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26336136M
Internet Archive
isbn_0451158601
ISBN 10
0451158601
ISBN 13
9780451158604
OCLC/WorldCat
22994646

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June 24, 2017 Created by ImportBot Imported from Internet Archive item record.