- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Victor Gollancz; First Edition edition (1940)
- ASIN: B000NPS16W
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,748,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A week after the declaration of the second world war the publisher contacted Dorothy Sayers and asked her to write a message to the nation. This book is the result. And the message is as important for us in the present economic world crisis.
Sayers not only wrote detective stories featuring lord Peter Wimsey, but also two plays to be performed in Canterbury Cathedral, a BBC series on the life of Christ and a wonderful book on creativity, "The mind of the maker". That gives this book its special background.
"There are no final catastrophes," she writes. "Like every other historical event, war is not an end, but a beginning." So we should not attempt to recreate the status quo, the birthplace of the crisis, but decide how to use this opportunity to choose a future we want. A future does not exist, but is created by ourselves, our actions and thoughts. Not by politicians, but by yourself and everybody else.
Sayers not only wrote detective stories featuring lord Peter Wimsey, but also two plays to be performed in Canterbury Cathedral, a BBC series on the life of Christ and a wonderful book on creativity, "The mind of the maker". That gives this book its special background.
"There are no final catastrophes," she writes. "Like every other historical event, war is not an end, but a beginning." So we should not attempt to recreate the status quo, the birthplace of the crisis, but decide how to use this opportunity to choose a future we want. A future does not exist, but is created by ourselves, our actions and thoughts. Not by politicians, but by yourself and everybody else.
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