Surprised by Joy
The Shape of My Early Life
Item Number: 21553
About this book
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. This book, together with his early diary All My Road Before Me, form the closest thing we have to an autobiography.
"This book," Lewis says in his opening sentence, "is written partly in answer to requests that I would tell how I passed from atheism to Christianity and partly to correct one or two false notions that seem to have got about." One of the most important Christian spiritual autobiographies in the last 100 years.
Reviews
'He is admirably equipped to write spiritual autobiography for the plain man, for his outstanding gift is clarity. You can take it at two levels, as straight autobiography, or as a kind of spiritual thriller, a detective's probing of clue and motive that led up to his return to the Christianity he had lost in childhood.' Isabel Quigley, Sunday Times
A Tiber River reviewer hasn't written a review for this book yet.
Sign up as a Tiber River reviewer and see your review here!
(Apart from fame, you can also can get free stuff and gift certificates.)
1. Damien of Molokai - Priest of Heroic Kindness 11/02/2009
2. Msgr. Ronald Knox - Priest of Heroic Modesty 10/05/2009
3. Fr. Peter Whelan - Priest of Heroic Generosity 08/31/2009
4. Augustine Tolton - Priest of Heroic Patience 07/30/2009
5. Don Carlo Gnocchi - Priest of Heroic Kindness 06/18/2009
6. Fr. Vincent Capodanno - Priest of Heroic Virtue 06/01/2009
7. About Muriel Spark 04/22/2009
8. Our Lady of Fatima 02/26/2009
9. St. Anthony of Padua 02/26/2009
10. St. Mark the Evangelist 02/24/2009
11. St. Joseph 02/23/2009
12. St. Patrick 02/11/2009
13. The Meaning of Lent 01/21/2009
14. St. Valentine 01/16/2009
15. St. John Bosco 01/16/2009
16. St. Anthony the Great, Founder of Monasticism 01/14/2009
17. Archbishop Fulton Sheen 01/14/2009
18. St. Thomas Aquinas 01/06/2009
19. St. Francis de Sales 01/06/2009
20. The Conversion of Paul 12/17/2008
21. St. Agnes of Rome 12/17/2008
22. Pope St. Damasus I 12/02/2008
23. St. Jude Thaddeus 12/02/2008
24. The Ignatius Critical Editions 11/25/2008
25. Good King Wenceslas 11/25/2008
26. A Resource Guide to Books by Pope Benedict XVI 11/25/2008
27. St. Catherine of Alexandria 11/24/2008
28. St. Francis Xavier 11/24/2008
29. St. Lucy 11/24/2008
30. Saint Cecilia 11/21/2008
31. Devotion to the Saints 11/13/2008
32. St. Albert the Great 11/04/2008
33. St. Martin de Porres, the Saint of the Broom 10/24/2008
34. Monthly Dedications of the Church Year 10/24/2008
35. St. Josaphat Kuncevyc 10/21/2008
36. St. Teresa of Avila 10/14/2008
37. St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart 10/14/2008
38. In Remembrance of Pope John Paul II 10/13/2008
39. Resources for the Year of St. Paul 10/13/2008
40. A Letter From Padre Pio 10/01/2008
41. Francis and Clare - A New Feature Film 10/01/2008
42. Mother Teresa's Secret Fire 10/01/2008
43. St. Pio - Padre Pio - A Model for Our Times 09/22/2008
44. The Apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes 07/21/2008
45. About St. Bernadette 07/21/2008
46. The Real St. Nicholas 07/08/2008
47. The Conversion of St. Paul 07/03/2008
48. Why a Year of St. Paul? 07/02/2008
49. The Martyrdom of St. Paul 07/02/2008
50. About the Nativity of St. John the Baptist 06/20/2008
51. About St. Aloysius Gonzaga 06/19/2008
52. The Feast of St. Justin Martyr 05/31/2008
53. Feast of St. John Neumann 01/02/2008
54. Feast of the Holy Family 12/29/2007
55. Feast of St. Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr 12/28/2007
56. Feast of St. John the Evangelist 12/26/2007
57. Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 12/26/2007
58. Feast of St. Stephen, Martyr 12/24/2007
59. Feast of St. Basil the Great 12/21/2007
