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Essay Archive - Lewis' "Surprise by Joy": Analysis
Lewis' "Surprise by Joy": Analysis
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, Lewis the
distinguished Oxford don and literary critic; secondly, Lewis, the highly
acclaimed author of science fiction and children's literature; and thirdly,
Lewis, the popular writer and broadcaster of Christian apologetics. The
amazing thing, Barfield notes, is that those who may have known of Le....
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