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‘The book is sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a perfect joy, and should become a classic.’
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‘Excellent, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking.’
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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 60 years old, it is stunningly repackaged to launch 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.
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72 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was assigned reading when I was in 8th grade at a Catholic school. I remember I had no appreciation for it whatsoever at the time. I couldn't relate to the protagonist or his travails in wartime England.
Perhaps one needs a little time in this world to appreciate the delicious simplicity of Lewis' allegory. Having read it recently I was struck by the wisdom, strength and genuine spiritualism this book exudes.
One needn't, as commented upon elsewhere, be a believer to appreciate this work. Lewis never tries to foist any doctrinaire agenda upon the reader. Neither is he didactic. All that comes across (to this reader, at least) is a sense of hard-won wisdom. It offers some hints about how we might find a bit of peace and happiness on this earth if we are willing to think a little less selfishly and are able to set our powerful egos aside for awhile.
I wish that those readers who wasted their money on The Celestine Prophecy and thought it provided wonderful spiritual insight would turn their attention Lewis' way. Here is the matter simply stated, without some wayward attempts at new-age jingoism.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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The Screwtape Letters place christianity, and religion in general, firmly in the context of the twentieth century. The evil versus good battle is fought by a bumbling fool who is conceited enough to think that he knows best, and human (if that is the right word) enough to believe that he is doing evreything possible, and doing it correctly, whilst the world conspires against him.
The book is, however, as much a philosophical novel as anything else, as Lewis seeks both to entertain and to reach a conclusion to one of man's greatest questions. Of course, we don't have to accept his conclusion if we don't want to - that is still philosophy's greatest virtue over science. This does not matter, however. THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS is fun to read and whether you are looking for spiritual enlightenment, or just a good book, you could do a lot worse than this.
Being fairly short, you'll finish it quite quickly, but this effect is amplified by the ease with which you begin to read the book, and the difficulty with which you put it down.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
C.S. Lewis has a gift for making complex concepts of God and man and making them understandable, this is an absolute must for anyone looking to expand their mind in the area of Christian life.
But it is also a really entertaining read for any person who doesn't object to engaging their mind just a little bit.
Read and enjoy.
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One tends to forget after a while, what side of the fence the author on, I had to double read to get the feel of the book. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Aphc Laird
Screwtape does not want you to read this!!!!!
C S Lewis at his funniest and best. I tend to learn a lot from negatives, and this book from a senior devil to a junior, touches on things that get to Christians. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fred Slegne
Temptingly good, wickedly insightful
This book was recommended to me as both amusing and thought provoking, and also as a brilliant piece of writing. It does indeed tick all of those boxes. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Juliet Foster
Makes you think
I found that it took a few letters to get into the book, but then there was so much to consider about the work of the devil in our lives. An unusual approach to writing about God. Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. Roberts
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I like this book because it's an intelligent book and an easy read but also full of memorable ideas and quotations. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Verareader
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I had read the book some years ago but this copy was for a friend. The book is certainly funny but for me I found the extra chapter at the back very thought provoking. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Geordie78
The uniqueness of C.S.Lewis
C.S.Lewis does it again, with wit, insight and wisdom, he endevours to show the Christian how devious, and clever the Devil is when he sets out to entrap us, using our thoughts,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by scjmar
Not an entirely diabolical diabolic set of philosophical musings
The Screwtape Letters is a collection of letters from a master demon (Screwtape) to his, still learning, and at this point, unsuccesful nephew Wormwood. Read more
Published 10 months ago by jacr100
Witty Theology
C.S. Lewis never fails to amaze. Lewis uses wit and satire to make the most complex doctrinal, highly debated, and centrally controversial issues within and surrounding... Read more
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