FACT OF THE DAY:
Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on this date (4/7) in 1966. It was first published in 1961.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.”
Preface to Broadcast Talks
(Written on 4/6/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who was Prince Caspian’s tutor?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
A Grief Observed was published for the first time in the US today (14th) in 1963, after being released in the UK on 9/29/1961. Also paperbacks of The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity (both 1955) in the UK.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.”
A Grief Observed
(Published in the US on 2/14/1963)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What famous fictional book was published twice this month a year apart?
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Highlights for the second third of February (10th – 18th) include: The concluding talk from the “What Christians Believe” BBC series, an explanation of the word “membership” in a talk to a group and the publication of a selection of Christian-themed essays.
In 1945 on the 10th Lewis gave a talk, simply called “Membership,” to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford. It was also published later in the year and is now best found in The Weight of Glory. Lewis explained in his presentation that the word “membership” in the New Testament differs from the way it is used today. Instead of speaking of it in the sense of a group containing like items, the Christian meaning is close to “what we should call organs, things essentially different from, and complementary to, one another.” He also pointed out that believers are
A Grief Observed was published today in 1961, but it wasn’t until after his death that it was attributed to Lewis.
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
A Grief Observed
(Published 9/29/1961)
Highlights for September 22nd – 30th include: Debut story of a Sci-Fi trilogy, a landmark book published anonymously and the death of Lewis’s father to cancer.
It’s no secret that Lewis is known for being a versatile writer. One of his earliest efforts that spotlighted this fact is what happened 75 years ago on September 23rd. In 1938 Lewis released the first of what is referred to its fans as the Ransom trilogy. That’s because Dr. Elwin Ransom is a
Before Lewis’s death the book A Grief Observed was not credited to him, but N.W. Clerk. It first came out in 1961.
