Conscience Be My Guide: An Anthology of Prison Writings (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Bould, Geoffrey
Publisher:	Zed Books
Date:	08/01/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This remarkable collection of prison literature inspires with the eloquent idealism of prisoners of conscience through the ages. The contributors include many of the world's finest writers: Wole Soyinka, Primo Levi, Irina Ratushinskaya, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Henry Thoreau. There are moving accounts from victims of the Holocaust, Soviet labour camps and psychiatric prisons, nuclear protestors, civil rights and anti-apartheid activists, anti-colonial nationalists and targets of religious persecution throughout history.