Name: The Screwtape Letters
ISBN: 9780060652937

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Sly Perspective

A compact, warm, and slyly unsettling way into spiritual self-examination.

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devotional wit
layered moral perspective

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short, lettered pieces
a toolkit for reflection

Book Details

Authors: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: February 6, 2001
Format: Paperback
Theme: Faith & Inspiration · Angels & Demons
Reading lane: Faith & Inspiration

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Religion in the Arts
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About This Book

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a...

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A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.