The collection of essays by the famous English writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) included small analytical texts written in the same rich artistic language as her great prose. Some works were conceived as brutal social polemics, others resemble literary essays, samples of modernist novels or psychological studies. In each essay of this collection, Wolfe manifests himself as a sensitive registrar of modernity, creating instant texts, difficult-to-catch sketches, paintings and intuitions of the new century. The title work, Thoughts on Peace During an Air Raid, was written in August 1940 for the American Symposium on the Problems of Modern Women. In it, Wolfe discusses how the patriarchal drive to rule and enslave leads to wars and dictatorships. PDF A4 saved publishing design.