Books with title The Screwtape Letters

A timeless classic on ''Hell's latest novelties and Heaven's unanswerable answer.'' A masterpiece of satire, this classic work has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the 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 worldly-wise old 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, offering insights on good vs. evil, repentance, grace, and more.

In these wickedly engaging letters, Screwtape, a bedeviling official in the Lower Archy of Hell, tutors his young nephew, Wormwood, in successfully performing his first evil mission--to secure a young man's damnation. Darkly comic, yet deadly serious, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS depicts a morally reversed world in which Screwtape presses his nephew to ever more evil seductions. But success is by no means certain, as his Enemy Above sends out interfering angels to thwart Screwtape. . . . C. S. Lewis was among the most esteemed of modern Christian thinkers, and THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, both entertaining and thoughtful, has become one of his best-loved books.

On its first appearance, The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology and has since sold more than a quarter of a million editions. Now stunningly repackaged and rebranded as part of the Signature Classics range. A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world overwith its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the 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 worldly wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. Dedicated to Lewis's friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien, The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation -- and triumph over it -- ever written.