Prisons We Choose to Live Inside is a collection of five essays by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos....

 which were previously delivered as the 1985 Massey Lectures

Massey Lectures

The Massey Lectures are an annual week-long series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic given in Canada by a noted scholar. They were created in 1961 to honour Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada...

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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

Reviews and Criticism

• Review by Stephen Downes (accessed 2008-10-07).