Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
1st edition
Author(s)	Doris Lessing
Country	Canada
Language	English
Genre(s)	Non-fiction
Publisher	CBC Enterprises
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print Paperback
ISBN	ISBN 0-06-039077-8 ISBN 978-0060390778
OCLC Number	318276776
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 19
LC Classification	PR6023.E833 P7 1987

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside is a collection of five essays by the British writer Doris Lessing, which were previously delivered as the 1985 Massey Lectures^[1].

The Essays

The five collected essays are generally meant to be read in order though they can be read independently. The essays appear in the collection in the order that they were delivered as lectures. The titles of the essays are:

• When In the Future They Look Back On Us
• You Are Damned, We Are Saved
• Switching Off to See "Dallas"
• Group Minds
• Laboratories of Social Change

External Sites

• CBC Radio Ideas Audio Archive : "The 1985 CBC Massey Lectures, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside". CBC Radio Ideas. Canadian Broadcasting Company. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey-archives/1985/11/07/massey-lectures-1985-prisons-we-choose-to-live-inside/. Retrieved 2012-1-2. 

References

v t e Works by Doris Lessing Novels The Grass Is Singing The Golden Notebook The Four-Gated City Memoirs of a Survivor Shikasta The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Sirian Experiments The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire The Good Terrorist The Fifth Child The Sweetest Dream The Cleft Alfred and Emily Other "Through the Tunnel" "Flight" The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Under My Skin The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels Related topics Canopus in Argos