Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

by C.S. Lewis

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Original publication date

1955

Important places

Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

People/Characters

C. S. Lewis

Awards and honors

Recommended by the Book Society (1955)

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First words

I was born in the winter of 1898 at Belfast, the son of a solicitor and of a clergyman's daughter.

Quotations

"I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions."

"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."

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Contents

I. The first years.

II. Concentration Camp.

III. Mountbracken and Campbell.

IV. I broaden my mind.

V. Renaissance.

VI. Bloodery.

VII. Light and Shade

VIII. Release.

IX. The great knock.

X. Fortune's smile.

XI. Check.

XII. Guns and good company.

XIII. The new look.

XIV. Checkmate.

XV. The beginning.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0156870118, Paperback)

In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

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