num_pages: 230
description: 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.
language: English
title: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
titlecomplete: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
characters: Clive Staples Lewis
genres: Faith, Biography, Religion, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, Theology, Christian, Christianity
ratings_count: 61935
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt