Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living “in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures.”

In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing considers the savage past of our species and the remnants of it that seem to regularly erupt in our supposedly advanced and civilized world. Ultimately, she directly addresses 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.

“It’s a sobering book, but Lessing is hopeful—and her main source of hope stems from the capacity of human beings to study themselves and learn from their own behavior.” —The New York Times 

“Pithy, tough-minded, optimistic.” —New Society

“One of the most important writers of the past hundred years.” —The Times (London)
1003519474
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living “in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures.”

In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing considers the savage past of our species and the remnants of it that seem to regularly erupt in our supposedly advanced and civilized world. Ultimately, she directly addresses 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.

“It’s a sobering book, but Lessing is hopeful—and her main source of hope stems from the capacity of human beings to study themselves and learn from their own behavior.” —The New York Times 

“Pithy, tough-minded, optimistic.” —New Society

“One of the most important writers of the past hundred years.” —The Times (London)
17.99 In Stock
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

by Doris Lessing
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

by Doris Lessing

eBook

$17.99 

Available on Compatible NOOK devices, the free NOOK App and in My Digital Library.
WANT A NOOK?  Explore Now

Related collections and offers

LEND ME® See Details

Overview

The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living “in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures.”

In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing considers the savage past of our species and the remnants of it that seem to regularly erupt in our supposedly advanced and civilized world. Ultimately, she directly addresses 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.

“It’s a sobering book, but Lessing is hopeful—and her main source of hope stems from the capacity of human beings to study themselves and learn from their own behavior.” —The New York Times 

“Pithy, tough-minded, optimistic.” —New Society

“One of the most important writers of the past hundred years.” —The Times (London)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062295019
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 08/18/2023
Series: Cornelia & Michael Bessie
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 98
File size: 429 KB

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.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1919

Place of Birth:

Persia (now Iran)

Table of Contents

When in the Future They Look Back on Us1
You Are Damned, We Are Saved17
Switching Off to See "Dallas"31
Group Minds47
Laboratories of Social Change63
From the B&N Reads Blog

Customer Reviews