The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. It is written in a satirical, epistolary style and, while it is fictional in format, the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it. First published in February 1942, [2] the story takes the form of a ...
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 ...
BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE PILGRIM’S REGRESS OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET THE PROBLEM OF PAIN BROADCAST TALKS CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOUR BEYOND PERSONALITY THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C. S. LEWIS Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford GEOFFREY BLES: THE CENTENARY PRESS52 DOUGHTY STREET LONDON, W.C.1 Reprinted with some alterations by kind permission of “The ...
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The Screwtape Letters was initially published, chapter/letter, by chapter, in The Guardian on May 2nd, 1941. Based on the public domain etext provided by gutenberg Canada ebooks. the text was produced by Marcia Brooks, Mark akrigg, stephen hutcheson & the online Distributed Proofreading Canada team.
The novel consists of 31 letters written by a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a young devil named Wormwood. The author, C.S. Lewis, notes that he has no intention of explaining how he came to acquire these letters. In the early letters of the book, Screwtape responds to the news that Wormwood is busy trying to tempt a young man, the patient, to move away from God —the Enemy, as ...