Lewis' "Surprise By Joy": Analysis
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I. Form and Content
Long-time friend and literary executor of the Lewis estate, Owen Barfield
has suggested that there were, in fact, three "C. S. Lewises." That is to
say, there were three different vocations that Lewis fulfilled--and
fulfilled successfully--in his lifetime. There was, first, Lew ....
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.... such, Surprised by Joy represents one of the few works within the Lewis
canon that speaks directly and unabashedly about his personal life. Given
the almost stifling attention that Lewis's private life has received since
his death in 1963, Surprised by Joy stands apart as an astonishingly candid
yet self-effacing volume by one widely-regarded as the premier Christian
apologist of the twentieth century. Lewis proceeds in Surprised by Joy as
one reluctant to reveal specific details of his life bu ....
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