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The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil (Paperback)

by C. S. Lewis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Fount; New edition edition (2 Feb 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006280609
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006280606
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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'The book is sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a perfect joy, and should become a classic.' Guardian 'Excellent, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking.' Observer

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This narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on Earth, trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Demons make the best moralists, 5 Jun 2004
This is an imaginative tour de force, full of humour and goodness. For a book of informal moral psychology, teaching on human vice and virtue and their part in human well-being, the form is very original. We have before us a series of letters from one senior devil to his nephew, a tempter lower in the infernal lowerarchy, written with subtlety but with crystalline lucidity as well.
The subject of the book is not only morality in the sense of good and evil, but the 'moral' in the sense of the human person, its integrity and well-being. And because of this one does not need to read this work beside Lewis' 'Mere Christianity' (as believers really should), but can enjoy the fiction or allegory while at the same time revelling in wonderfully rendered insights into the human soul or mind.
This work not only teaches but it entertains, and it does both simultaneously without letting the one impinge on the other. It is Lewis' answer to Chesterfield's letters. A joy to read.
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lewis' Morality Play, 1 Dec 2002
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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Screwy Screwtape, 25 April 2005
By Paul Rowden "paulrowden2" (Belfast N.I. UK third rock from the sun) - See all my reviews
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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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