Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing
<p>"One of the most important writers of the past hundred years." -- <em>The Times</em> (London)In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what we know, how to pick a path in a world deluged with opinions and information, and how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes.**</p>From the Back Cover<p>"Her lectures are serious and superb." - Globe and Mail  </p><p>"Lessing holds out history, science, art, philosophy, and literature as the keys to the prison of conformity. And we would do well to heed her advice. Because it is there--in the collective experience of those who have gone before us and have walked beside us--that we will find the tools we need to go on." - Village Voice  </p><p>In these five lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestionable belief. In her remarkably forthright style, Lessing attacks inhumanity and ignorance, urging the individual to rise above the constraints of our society, to build a better world.  </p><p>Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran), raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and currently lives in London. Author of more than thirty books , Lessing won the David Cohen Literature Prize and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Man Booker International Prize for her progressive and insightful works. </p>About the Author<p>Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She is the author of more than fifty books, including <em>The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook,</em> and most recently <em>, Alfred and Emily</em>. Her many honours include the Nobel Prize in Literature and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She lives in North London. </p>