Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

First edition
Author	Doris Lessing
Country	Canada
Language	English
Publisher	CBC Enterprises
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print Paperback
ISBN	0-06-039077-8
OCLC	318276776
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 19
LC Class	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 links

• CBC Radio Ideas Audio Archive : "The 1985 CBC Massey Lectures, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside". CBC Radio Ideas. Canadian Broadcasting Company. Retrieved 2012-01-02. 

References

Works by Doris Lessing
Novels	The Grass Is Singing Martha Quest The Golden Notebook A Proper Marriage A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked 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 Ben, in the World The Sweetest Dream The Cleft
Short stories	"Through the Tunnel" "Flight"
Collections	Prisons We Choose to Live Inside The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
Autobiography	Under My Skin Walking in the Shade
Science fiction	Canopus in Argos The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
Other	Alfred and Emily