Book description
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. 'The book is sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a
perfect joy, and should become a classic.'
Guardian
'Excellent, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking.'
Observer Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual
giants of the twentieth century. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English
literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously
elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge
University, a position he held until his retirement.
