A grief observed
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2001 - HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, California
Language
English
Word Count
19,000 words, Guess
Page Count
76 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegriefobserved00lewi_0
- Internet Archivegriefobserved00lewi_366
- Internet Archivegriefobserved00lewi_504
- ISBN-100060652381
- ISBN-139780060652388
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- Goodreads49221
- LibraryThing1539
- Library of Congress Control Number00063227
- OCLC Control Number44885289
- Better World Books9780060652388
- Open LibraryOL6794586M
Classifications
- DDC242/.4
- LCCBV4905.2 .L4 2001
- LCCBV4905.2.L4 2001
Description
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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