Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

by Virginia Woolf

Overview

'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound - far more than prayers and anthems - that should compel one to think about peace. Unless we can think peace into existence we - not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born - will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle overhead.'

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141957050
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	08/27/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is a major 20th century author, a great novelist and essayist, and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist.

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1882

Date of Death:

March 28, 1941

Place of Birth:

London

Place of Death:

Sussex, England

Education:

Home schooling