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This autobiography of C.S.Lewis's early life, focusing on the spiritual crisis which was to determine the shape of his entire life, now repackaged and rebranded as a key title in the C.S. Lewis Signature Classics range. "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God!perhaps the most dejeced and reluctant convert in all England." Thus C.S. Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion in his famous autobiography. Lewis was for many years an atheist, and in Surprised by Joy he vividly describes the spiritual quest which eventually convinced him of the truth and reality of the Christian faith. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A Masterpiece, Sep 12 2003

Par	Brian G Hedges (South Bend, Indiana) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Paperback)

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!

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5.0�toiles sur 5 a must read, Mars 10 2004

Par	jeff reedy (earth) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Paperback)

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.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A lovely and perennially absorbing book, Nov. 26 2003

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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.

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2.0�toiles sur 5 Disappointing
A disappointment, though not without interest. Lewis's purpose is to tell the story of his conversion from atheism to Christianity. Read more

Publi� le Avril 6 2004 par Alan Nicoll (real name)

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Nov. 7 2003 par Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr.

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Ao� 28 2003 par MotherLodeBeth

5.0�toiles sur 5 Lewis is deeply intelligent.
A wonderful writer.

Publi� le Ao� 11 2003 par Declan

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Juil 5 2003 par miked99

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Avril 28 2003 par Joshua M. Clark

4.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le F�v 9 2003 par Tammy L. Schilling

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Oct. 8 2002 par bixodoido

4.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Juil 8 2002 par Rebecca M

3.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Jui 2 2002 par Bernard J. Leininger

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