Conscience Be My Guide: An Anthology of Prison Writings

Bould, Geoffrey (ed)

ISBN 10: 1856490106 / ISBN 13: 9781856490108

Published by Zed Books, London, United Kingdom, 1992

About this Item

Pictorial boards have edge wear, minor scratches, rubbed corners/spine. Front hinge slightly cracked. No writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conscience Be My Guide: An Anthology of Prison Writings
• Publisher: Zed Books, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856490106
• ISBN 13: 9781856490108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good-
• Seller catalogs:
  • ABE
  • Sociology
  • zAmazon

About this title

Synopsis

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 Throeau. There are moving accounts from victims of the Holocaust, Soviet labor camps and psychiatric prisons, nuclear protestors, civil rights and anti-apartheid activists, anti-colonial nationalists and targets of religious persecution throughout history.

About the Author

Geoffrey Bould was born in Yorkshire in 1920. After service in World War II, he worked in the civil service until his retirement in 1982. In addition to working as a freelance journalist, he established and edited for several years the ecumenical newspaper Interfaith News. An active Quaker, Geoffrey Bould has been a member of Amnesty International's Religious Affairs Panel.