
Title | : | Prisons We Choose to Live Inside |
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ISBN | : | 0887845215 |
ISBN-10 | : | 0887845215 |
Language | : | English |
Format Type | : | Kindle Edition, Hardcover, Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 80 pages |
Publication | : | House of Anansi Press (Aug. 1 1992) |
Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She is the author of than fifty books, including The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and most recently, Alfred and Emily. Her many honours include the Nobel Prize in Literature and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. She lives in North London.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Reviews
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This book should be mandatory in schools. The best part is that it only takes an evening to read.
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Nice
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This is a book you want everyone you care about to read. It's full of infinite wisdom and tips about how to be an informed individual and not succumb to mob metality or stupidity that we humans sometimes fall prey to!
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I love Doris Lessing! I have read many of her works of fiction but, I am new to her essays. I was blown away by her honest "bird's eye view " of our world. She has the insight to look around us and truely see what the world has become and how we got here. Her points are
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This book contains a series of 5 lectures given by Doris Lessing, sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1985. Their basic thesis is that groups of human beings behave in certain predictable ways under cetain circumstances, and that those who value