One of the world's most extraordinary writers addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what 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 books with high impact and enormous carrying power. Doris Lessing was born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia. She lives in London. She is the author of more than thirty books, among them Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, and The Good Terrorist.