Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
{{Short description|Essays by Doris Lessing}}
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{{Infobox book |
| name = Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
| image = File:PrisonsWeChooseToLiveInside.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Doris Lessing
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| country = Canada
| language = English
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| publisher = CBC Enterprises
| release_date = 1986
| media_type = Print Paperback
| pages =
| isbn = 0-06-039077-8
| dewey = 823/.914 19
| congress = PR6023.E833 P7 1987
| oclc = 318276776
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey-archives/1985/11/07/massey-lectures-1985-prisons-we-choose-to-live-inside/|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Company|title=The 1985 CBC Massey Lectures, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside|work=CBC Radio Ideas|year=1985|location=Toronto|first=Doris|last=Lessing|accessdate=2012-01-02}}
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 : {{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey-archives/1985/11/07/massey-lectures-1985-prisons-we-choose-to-live-inside/|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Company|title=The 1985 CBC Massey Lectures, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside|work=CBC Radio Ideas|accessdate=2012-01-02}}