A Grief Observed Readers Edition

Author : Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grief Observed written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1961 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9780571310876
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grief Observed Readers' Edition written by C. S. Lewis and published by Faber & Faber Non Fiction. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, rage, and struggle to sustain his faith. In it he finds the way back to life. Now a modern classic, A Grief Observed has offered solace and insight to countless readers worldwide. This new edition includes the original text of A Grief Observed alongside specially commissioned responses to the book and its themes from respected contemporary writers and thinkers: Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely." --Publisher description.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A GRIEF OBSERVED (Based on a Personal Journal) written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grief Observed is a collection of Lewis's reflections on the experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was first published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk as Lewis wished to avoid identification as the author. Though republished in 1963 after his death under his own name, the text still refers to his wife as "H" (her first name, which she rarely used, was Helen). The book is compiled from the four notebooks which Lewis used to vent and explore his grief. He illustrates the everyday trials of his life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. Lewis's step-son (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham points out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis's grief is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual's perspective among countless others. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A GRIEF OBSERVED: A Book that Questions the Nature of Grief (Based on a Personal Journal) written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "A GRIEF OBSERVED: A Book that Questions the Nature of Grief (Based on a Personal Journal)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Grief Observed is a collection of Lewis's reflections on the experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was first published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk as Lewis wished to avoid identification as the author. Though republished in 1963 after his death under his own name, the text still refers to his wife as "H" (her first name, which she rarely used, was Helen). The book is compiled from the four notebooks which Lewis used to vent and explore his grief. He illustrates the everyday trials of his life without Joy and explores fundamental questions of faith and theodicy. Lewis's step-son (Joy's son) Douglas Gresham points out in his 1994 introduction that the indefinite article 'a' in the title makes it clear that Lewis's grief is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual's perspective among countless others. The book helped inspire a 1985 television movie Shadowlands, as well as a 1993 film of the same name. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Author : Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grief Observed written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.

Author : David James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192506935
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discrepant Solace written by David James and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking archive, Discrepant Solace considers writers who engage with consolation not as an aesthetic salve but as an enduring problematic, one that unravels at the centre of emotionally challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing. The book understands solace as a generative yet conflicted aspect of style, where microelements of diction, rhythm, and syntax capture consolation's alternating desirability and contestation. With a wide-angle lens on the contemporary scene, David James examines writers who are rarely considered in conversation, including Sonali Deraniyagala, Colson Whitehead, Cormac McCarthy, W.G. Sebald, Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Julian Barnes, Helen Macdonald, Ian McEwan, Colm Tóibín, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Riley, and David Grossman. These figures overturn critical suppositions about consolation's kinship with ideological complaisance, superficial mitigation, or dubious distraction, producing unsettling perceptions of solace that shape the formal and political contours of their writing. Through intimate readings of novels and memoirs that explore seemingly indescribable experiences of grief, trauma, remorse, and dread, James demonstrates how they turn consolation into a condition of expressional possibility without ever promising us relief. He also supplies vital traction to current conversations about the stakes of thinking with contemporary writing to scrutinize affirmative structures of feeling, revealing unexpected common ground between the operations of literary consolation and the urgencies of cultural critique. Discrepant Solace makes the close reading of emotion crucial to understanding the work literature does in our precarious present.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553235395
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grief Observed written by C. S. Lewis and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1983-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.

Author : Mara van der Lugt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226148
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Matters written by Mara van der Lugt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope. Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030239101
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobility, Memory and the Lifecourse in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture written by Lynne Pearce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks—both literal and figurative— we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy. Working with diaries, journals and literary texts from the mid- to late-twentieth century, the book pursues this thesis through three phases of the lifecourse: courtship (broadly defined), the middle years of long-term relationships and bereavement. Building upon the author’s recent research on automobility, the text’s case studies reveal the crucial role played by many different types of transport—including walking—in defining our most enduring relationships. Conceptually, the book draws upon the writings of the philosopher, Henri Bergson, the anthropologist, Tim Ingold and the geographer, David Seamon, engaging with topical debates in cultural and emotional geography (especially work on landscape, memory and mourning), mobilities studies and critical love studies.

Author : Binanda Barkakaty
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514465825
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singapore Rose written by Binanda Barkakaty and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is, basically, a life portrayal of a loving wife from the perspective of her adoring husband. Binanda and Katie had been married for four-and-a-half decades. That is, until 22 May 2014, when Katie had to submit her earthly life to the Lord and Creator in heaven. She spent only five days in hospitaldidnt suffer much, didnt shed tears, but submitted her life to the will of God. Her married life is a glowing example of Gods unconditional love and unmerited grace on our life. She was courageous in breaking the mould, passionate about family life, and passionate about caring for the needy and the vulnerable. Nursing was her career, and caring was written in every part of her being. Katie played a significant part in the life of her husband, not only in supporting him as a cotraveller on Earth, but also in making him the man as hes now. Written in simple language in his candid way, this book describes the life of a woman who touched the life of many people whom she cared for and others who came into contact with her. Above all, her life was a gift from the Almighty Creator, and his love and grace shone through her life to many a people all over the globe. The book also deals with grief of separation, suffering, and bereavement of a few devoted Christian authors, as well as their response to the attack of grief. The book will appeal to those who would like some inspiration about the enduring love and everlasting grace of Christ Jesus, who gave his life at the Golgotha Cross, for the entire humanity, making us righteous with God the Father. And we can be sure of our eternal salvation in Jesus if we put our trust in him.