A tale of a remote Russian backwater and its slow, well-fed, brutal way of life. Zamyatin's first major work, the one that made his name.
A satirical novella about English respectability and life regimented by the clock, drawn from the author's years as a naval engineer in England.
A dystopian novel of the One State, where people wear numbers instead of names and live by the clock behind glass walls. The book that shaped Orwell and Huxley.
A short story of cold, starving Petrograd during the civil war, where people huddle around a stove like cave dwellers of old.
A novella about a woman from a working-class quarter of Petrograd, whose quiet life moves toward its reckoning as the Neva floodwaters rise.
An unfinished historical novel about the young Attila and the twilight of Rome. The last major work Zamyatin wrote, in his Paris exile.