Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Thought-Provoking Essays on Self-Awareness, Critical Thinking, and Intellectual Freedom (Cornelia & Michael Bessie Books) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

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ISBN 10: 0060390778 ISBN 13: 9780060390778

Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1987

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

In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly 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.

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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.

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In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly 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.

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One of the world's most extraordinary writers addresses directly the prime question 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, how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes. A small book with high impact and enormous carrying power.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0060390778
• ISBN 13: 9780060390778
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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