Surprised by Joy

C. S. Lewis

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780062565440
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religious Biographies

A repackaged edition of the revered author's spiritual memoir, in which he recounts the story of his divine journey and eventual conversion to Christianity.

C. S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—takes readers on a spiritual journey through his early life and eventual embrace of the Christian faith. Lewis 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.

CONTENTS

1. DEDICATION
2. EPIGRAPH
4. PREFACE
5. I THE FIRST YEARS
6. II CONCENTRATION CAMP
7. III MOUNTBRACKEN AND CAMPBELL
8. IV I BROADEN MY MIND
9. V RENAISSANCE
10. VI BLOODERY
11. VII LIGHT AND SHADE
12. VIII RELEASE
13. IX THE GREAT KNOCK
14. X FORTUNE’S SMILE
15. XI CHECK
16. XII GUNS AND GOOD COMPANY
17. XIII THE NEW LOOK
18. XIV CHECKMATE
19. XV THE BEGINNING
20. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
21. ALSO BY C. S. LEWIS
22. CREDITS
23. COPYRIGHT
24. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER