The Screwtape Letters
HarperCollins · Paperback · February 6, 2001
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A warm, sharp-edged lens on faith and self-scrutiny.
- Themes
- temptation, spiritual warfare, satire
- Pacing
- Reflective
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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.”
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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.
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A warm, sharp-edged lens on faith and self-scrutiny.
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- wry devotional angle
- compact, letter-by-letter reflection
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- short-form moral pressure
- easy to revisit in pieces
Where it sits
| Christian Allegory | 69% |
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| Faith & Inspiration | 66% |
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- Adult Humor
- Religious Humor
- Faith & Inspiration
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- Religion in the Arts
- Religious Ethics
- Christmas & Advent
- Spirituality
- Authors
- C. S. Lewis
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 6, 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- temptation · spiritual warfare · satire
- Reading lane
- Adult Humor