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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 following the death in 1960 of his wife, Joy Gresham, 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). Lacking an identifiable author, the book sold poorly in Great Britain. After Lewis's death in 1963, the book was republished under his own name, and was also published in the United States. It has remained continuously in print ever since.
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 and theodicy. The indefinite article in the title serves to make 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.
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1930s
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1940s
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1950s
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Mere Christianity (1952) · English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954) · Major British Writers, Vol I (1954) · De Descriptione Temporum. An Inaugural Lecture (1955) · Surprised by Joy (1955) · Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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The Business Of Heaven (1984) · Present Concerns (1986)
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1990s
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
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2000s
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Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000) · Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000) · 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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