PRISONS WE CHOOSE TO LIVE INSIDE

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original card covers with photographic portrait of Doris Lessing by her son Peter. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout. Scarce in presentation state.

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the front endpaper "Solveig / love / Doris / 6.7.86". The recipient is the Swedish publisher, translator and activist Solveig Nellinge (1931-1998). A collection of five essays which were previously delivered as the 1985 CBC Massey Lectures (an annual series of lectures given in Canada by distinguished writers, thinkers, and scholars). Comprising 'When In the Future They Look Back On Us', 'You Are Damned', 'We Are Saved', 'Switching Off to See "Dallas"', 'Group Minds' and 'Laboratories of Social Change'.