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 ...
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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.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly ...
Screwtape writes about the new European war and how to use the patient’s feelings toward it to lead him into sin. He also says that beyond providing some refreshing human suffering, war is mostly harmful to the devils’ cause. He reminds Wormwood to focus on corrupting the patient and to refrain from rambling about the war in his letters.
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.
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