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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.

LEWIS, C.S.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1956.

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“The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my Early Life
First American edition of Lewis' spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin.
In Surprised by Joy, Lewis takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. He begins with his childhood in Belfast, surveys his boarding school years and his youthful atheism in England, reflects on his experience in World War I, and ends at Oxford, where he became "the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.
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