Vous voulez voir cette page en français ? Cliquez ici.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
55 used & new from CDN$ 0.11
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Paperback)

by C.S. Lewis (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
List Price: CDN$ 17.95
Price: CDN$ 13.10 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 39. Details
You Save: CDN$ 4.85 (27%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. Gift-wrap available.

Ordering for Christmas?? This item requires additional time to ship and will arrive after December 25. Need a last-minute gift? Send an Amazon.ca Gift Certificate.

16 new from CDN$ 4.86 39 used from CDN$ 0.11

Frequently Bought Together

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life + Four Loves + The Complete C.s. Lewis Signature Classics
Total List Price: CDN$ 68.44
Price For All Three: CDN$ 46.46

Some of these items ship sooner than the others. Show details

  • This item: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis

    Usually ships within 3 to 5 weeks.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 39. Details

  • Four Loves by Cs Lewis

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 39. Details

  • The Complete C.s. Lewis Signature Classics by C S Lewis

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 39. Details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Four Loves

Four Loves

by Cs Lewis
4.6 out of 5 stars (19)  CDN$ 11.32
The Weight of Glory

The Weight of Glory

by C S Lewis
4.6 out of 5 stars (9)  CDN$ 11.32
The Complete C.s. Lewis Signature Classics

The Complete C.s. Lewis Signature Classics

by C S Lewis
4.0 out of 5 stars (1)  CDN$ 22.04
Problem of Pain

Problem of Pain

by C S Lewis
4.6 out of 5 stars (25)  CDN$ 12.95
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

by C. S. Lewis
4.7 out of 5 stars (22)  CDN$ 15.96
› Explore similar items

Product Details

Product Description

Product Description

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.


Ingram

In this book, C. S. 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.
See all Product Description

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(2)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item?

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
64% buy the item featured on this page:
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life 4.4 out of 5 stars (34)
CDN$ 13.10
Four Loves
12% buy
Four Loves 4.6 out of 5 stars (19)
CDN$ 11.32
The Complete C.s. Lewis Signature Classics
10% buy
The Complete C.s. Lewis Signature Classics 4.0 out of 5 stars (1)
CDN$ 22.04
The Weight of Glory
8% buy
The Weight of Glory 4.6 out of 5 stars (9)
CDN$ 11.32
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

34 Reviews
5 star:
 (19)
4 star:
 (9)
3 star:
 (5)
2 star:
 (1)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.4 out of 5 stars (34 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most helpful customer reviews

 
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece, Sep 12 2003
By Brian G Hedges (South Bend, Indiana) - See all my reviews
This is C. S. Lewis's spiritual autobiography and it is a masterpiece. Lewis was raised in a somewhat nominal Christianity, which he threw off as a school-boy. But as Lewis says, "A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There were traps everywhere - 'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and strategems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." And this book is Lewis's chronicle of God's strategems and nets and the surprises which eventually converted Lewis back to Christianity. Central to this process was Lewis's experience of joy, which he defines as "an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction." As a boy and as a man, Lewis was stabbed by this desire, yet never able to satisfy it. By a process of elimination, he came to realize that (as he says in another book) "if I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." The desire led him to the Objective Other - the Absolute - Spirit. At first, Lewis viewed this Other as an impersonal and objective absolute. But, God strategically boxed him into a corner (Lewis uses the analogy of check-mate in a game of chess) where he was forced to acknowledge that this Other was God Himself, and beyond that, God enfleshed in Jesus Christ. Woven into the story are the events of Lewis's childhood, education, and intellectual development. Quite a lot of the discussion centers around his reading, from Beatrix Potter as a child, to Keats, Herbert, MacDonald, and Chesterton as a young adult. This is a fascinating book and one cannot quite hope to fully appreciate Lewis without reading it. I highly recommend it!
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5.0 out of 5 stars a must read, Mar 10 2004
By jeff reedy (earth) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
one of the best books by my fav author of all time. well worded, insightful, instructive, inspirational - how many more 'i' words do you need? please, take my word, and read this book.
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely and perennially absorbing book, Nov 26 2003
By Susan Norton (Australia) - See all my reviews
This is a great book by a great writer, telling both of CS Lewis's life, including his education and his experiences as a front-line soldier in World War I, and his discovery of "Joy" and the sense of the scared, and his final conversion from Athiesm to Christiantiy. Full of wisdom, humor and fascinating historical description. His descriptions of his father, mother and brother, including his reaction to his mother's early death, are poignant and moving. He tells, also, of what it was really like to be a yong officer in the trenches of World War I, in which he was seriously wounded. In another key, how to really learn a difficult foreign language. This is a book to treasure and to read again and again.
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 		 Most recent customer reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
A disappointment, though not without interest. Lewis's purpose is to tell the story of his conversion from atheism to Christianity. Read more
Published on April 6 2004 by Alan Nicoll (real name)

5.0 out of 5 stars Introspective and Informative
Lewis says the two families from which he sprang were extremely different in both temperament and origin. On his dad's side there was the Welsh lineage. Read more
Published on Nov 7 2003 by Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece Read this work of his first
Owning all of C.S.Lewis' non-fiction works I believe this is the first book most people should own, simply because it shows his journey from being an atheist and a serious one at... Read more
Published on Aug 28 2003 by MotherLodeBeth

5.0 out of 5 stars Lewis is deeply intelligent.
A wonderful writer.
Published on Aug 11 2003 by Declan

5.0 out of 5 stars The auto-biography of Believers.
"Surprised by Joy" is C.S. Lewis' auto-biographical book about the early, formational years of his life, which began with a vaguely religious upbringing, led into devout... Read more
Published on Jul 5 2003 by miked99

5.0 out of 5 stars Mere Joy
As much as C.S. Lewis hems and haws in his preface about how suffocatingly subjective and uninteresting this book will be to many readers, there are few books in Lewis' corpus... Read more
Published on April 28 2003 by Joshua M. Clark

4.0 out of 5 stars Strikingly honest description
As many have noted, there are parts of this book that tend to drag a bit and are less than gripping. Read more
Published on Feb 9 2003 by Tammy L. Schilling

5.0 out of 5 stars The world according to CS Lewis--a masterpiece
CS Lewis never ceases to amaze me with his sincerity and utter humility. His genuine goodness is clear in all his works, but even more so in this. Read more
Published on Oct 8 2002 by bixodoido

4.0 out of 5 stars Confessions of a Convert
Far from being the typical "spiritual journey" book, C.S. Lewis captures, with his customary wit, the essence of his early life through adolescence which helped to shape... Read more
Published on Jul 8 2002 by Rebecca M

3.0 out of 5 stars An expository on Solipsism
It seems sacrilegious to redact such a gifted writer whose phraseolgy make his prose almost poetic, but my patience wore thin as I listened via Books on Tape to all his... Read more
Published on Jun 2 2002 by Bernard J. Leininger

Only search this product's reviews


Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject






















i.e., each book must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.