- Death, Meditations, Bereavement, Christianity
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.
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Character-led, contemplative, earnest and spare.
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Faber & Faber, (Ulverscroft) [Distributor]
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780061949289
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
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