An edition of A Grief Observed (1961)

A grief observed

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An edition of A Grief Observed (1961)

A grief observed

  • 4.00 ·
  • 12 Ratings
  • 90 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 19 Have read

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly homest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
151

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Cover of: A grief observed
A grief observed
2001, HarperSanFrancisco
in English
Cover of: A grief observed
A grief observed
1989, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: A grief observed
A grief observed
1980-12, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed
1980-12, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: A grief observed
A grief observed
1976, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Grief Observed
Grief Observed
June 1966, Faber & Faber
Paperback in English - New edition
Cover of: A grief observed
A grief observed
1963, Seabury Press
in English
Cover of: A grief observed
A grief observed
1961, Seabury Press
in English

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New York

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Mode of access: Internet.

The Physical Object

Pagination
151 p. ;
Number of pages
151

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26339404M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780553274868
ISBN 10
0553274864, 0553133667
OCLC/WorldCat
34767337, 2168315

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