Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Cornelia & Michael Bessie Books) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060390778 ISBN 13: 9780060390778

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1987

Synopsis

"One of the most important writers of the past hundred years." -- The Times (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.

About this title

About the Author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books--among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

One of the world's most extraordinary writers addresses directly the prime question 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, how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes. A small book with high impact and enormous carrying power.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060390778
• ISBN 13: 9780060390778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78