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A Grief Observed, first published in 1961, is a collection of C. S. Lewis's reflections on the experience of bereavement, after his wife, Joy Gresham, had died from bone cancer.
In order to avoid identification as the author, Lewis published the book under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk, referring to his wife throughout as H (her first name being Helen). The book consists of the contents of four manuscript books (or notebooks) in which Lewis expounds on his grief, from the everyday difficulties of his life without Joy to deep-set questions of faith.
The indefinite article in the title serves to make it clear that Lewis' is not the quintessential grief experience at the loss of a loved one, but one individual perspective among countless others.
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The Chronicles
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The Allegory of Love (1936) · Rehabilitations and other essays (1939) · The Personal Heresy (1939) · The Problem of Pain (1940) · A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942) · The Abolition of Man (1943) · Beyond Personality (1944) · Miracles (1947) · Arthurian Torso (1948) · Mere Christianity (1952) · English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954) · Major British Writers, Vol I (1954) · Surprised by Joy (1955) · De Descriptione Temporum. An Inaugural Lecture (1955) · Reflections on the Psalms (1958) · The Four Loves (1960) · Studies in Words (1960) · An Experiment in Criticism (1961) · A Grief Observed (1961) · They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962) · Selections from Layamon's Brut (1963) · Prayer: Letters to Malcolm (1964) · The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964) · Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966) · Spenser's Images of Life (1967) · Letters to an American Lady (1967) · Christian Reflections (1967) · Selected Literary Essays (1969) · God in the Dock (2 volumes) (1970-1971) · Of Other Worlds (1982) · The Business Of Heaven (1984) · Present Concerns (1986) · All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993) · Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000) · Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
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| Collected Letters |
Volume I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000) · Volume II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004) · Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
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