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Surprised by joy : the shape of my early life / C.S. Lewis.

By: Material type: TextSeries: C.S. Lewis signature bookPublisher: San Francisco : HarperOne, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 291 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062565433
  • 0062565435
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 248.2/46092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4935.L43 A3 2017
Contents:
The first years -- Concentration camp -- Mountbracken and Campbell -- I broaden my mind -- Renaissance -- Bloodery -- Light and shade -- Release -- The great knock -- Fortune's smile -- Check -- Guns and good company -- The new look -- Checkmate -- The beginning.
Summary: "In Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis shares his enthralling spiritual journey through his early life, chronicling his conversion to the Christian faith. ... Lewis starts with his childhood in Belfast, then describes his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, moves to his experience in World War I, and ends in Oxford. Through it all Lewis explores his lifelong search for joy and its role in pointing him toward God."--Book cover.Other editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Surprised by joy.
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BOOK Wasatch County Library Second Floor General NonFiction 92 Lewis (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34301002116152
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Originally published as Surprised by Joy in the United Kingdom in 1955 by Geoffrey Bles.

The first years -- Concentration camp -- Mountbracken and Campbell -- I broaden my mind -- Renaissance -- Bloodery -- Light and shade -- Release -- The great knock -- Fortune's smile -- Check -- Guns and good company -- The new look -- Checkmate -- The beginning.

"In Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis shares his enthralling spiritual journey through his early life, chronicling his conversion to the Christian faith. ... Lewis starts with his childhood in Belfast, then describes his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, moves to his experience in World War I, and ends in Oxford. Through it all Lewis explores his lifelong search for joy and its role in pointing him toward God."--Book cover.

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