Editing Surprised by Joy (section)

{{Short description|Partial autobiography about the author's conversion to Christianity by C.S. Lewis}}
{{About|a book by C. S. Lewis|the 19th-century poem that inspired the book's title|William Wordsworth}}
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| name          = Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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| image         = File:Surprised By Joy C.S. Lewis First Edition.jpg
| caption       = First edition (UK)
| author        = [[C. S. Lewis]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
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| genre         = [[Autobiography]]
| publisher     = [[Geoffrey Bles]] (UK)<br />[[Harcourt Brace]] (US)
| release_date  = 1955
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| media_type    = Paperback
| pages         = 252
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| oclc          = 28289338
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'''''Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life''''' is a partial [[autobiography]] published by [[C. S. Lewis]] in 1955.  The work describes Lewis's life from very early childhood (born 1898) until his  conversion to [[Christianity]] in 1931, but does not go beyond that date.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cslewis.drzeus.net/bio/ |title=An Outline of the Life of C. S. Lewis |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Into the Wardrobe – a C. S. Lewis website |access-date=2018-05-31 }}</ref>

The title comes from [[William Wordsworth|William Wordsworth's]] [[Poetry|poem]] "Surprised by Joy".