Summary
Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture. Full description
- Somewhere
- Tedium
- From eight bad thoughts to seven sins
- Psyche, soul, and muse
- Up and down
- Give me a word
- Acedia's progress
- Acedia's decline
- A silent despair
- The quotidian mysteries
- The "noon" of midlife
- Day by day
- And to the end arriving
- A widow's uneasy afterword
- Acedia: a commonplace book.