It then tells of him applying for Oxford and getting in. But most of the book actually focuses on his school days, as he attended several extremely harsh boarding schools, where the younger students would be constantly bullied and put down by the older ones. The book starts off when he was born, telling of his relationship with his mother (who died when he was quite young), his father, and his older brother.

Many of his early experiences developed his way of analyzing the world and philosophy, and for that reason I loved this book. You can see this throughout many of his books I’ve also read, like The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce. For example, his school days were harsh, and one of the things he learned quickly was to have a great fear of Hell. I found this book to be particularly interesting because it explains a lot of Lewis’s future writing. Lewis tells the story of his early life, reflecting on his school life and experiences in the first world war all the way up to his conversion to Christian when he was, “Surprised by Joy.” Review It covers his school days, fighting in WWI, and his university years at Oxford. This one is instead his autobiography, going from his birth to his conversion to Christianity when he was in his twenties. Saying that, this book is quick different than most of his books, which are either philosophy and fantasy. You don’t need a high vocabulary to read his books, and yet he breaks down extremely complicated concepts into simple explanations. I find his writing to be so delightfully simple and complex at the same time.

Lewis I’ve read in the last few months (the first being The Problem With Pain).

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