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The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 6, 2001

by C. S. Lewis (Author)

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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 original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise 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.

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March 6, 2001
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0060652896
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978-0060652890
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1170L
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“Why get a new Screwtape Letters? I love the feel and look of this annotated edition. …I love the addition of red ink inside this book for the notes. There are a couple of hundred helpful annotations that first-time and veteran readers will find intriguing.” — Read the Spirit

“This book is sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a perfect joy, and should become a classic.” — Guardian

“Excellent, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking.” — Observer

“C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way.” — New York Times Book Review

“Apparently this Oxford don and Cambridge professor is going to be around for a long time; he calls himself a dinosaur but he seems to speak to people where they are.” — The Washington Post Book World

“[The Screwtape Letters] show[s] his ability to dramatize: to set forth an attractive vision of the Christian life, proceeding by means of character and plot to narrate an engaging story, everything colorful, vibrant, and active.” — Christianity Today

“C. S. Lewis understood, like few in the past century, just how deeply faith is both imaginative and rational.” — Christianity Today

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A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation.

This profound and striking 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. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways and is "lost" to the young devil.

Dedicated to Lewis's friend and colleague J. R. R. Tolkien, The Screwtape Letters is a timeless classic on spiritual conflict and the psychology of temptation which are part of our religious experience.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins (March 6, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060652896
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060652890
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1170L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.25 inches

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Cherry

A must read

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2023

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This writing is exceptional as to be expected by this author. Story line like one has never thought of and detailed through and through.
A must read, totally interesting to the end.

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incredible insight into the spiritual war

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2011

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Wow

Basically, this amazing book is letters from a devil (Screwtape) writing to his nephew (Wormwood) who is a lesser devil/demon/whatever. These letters are advice on how to keep the patient (a young man) from salvation.

DISCLAIMER: I am a Christian, and this review is written for people who have been crucified with Christ (gal 2:20) Others can read at their own risk :-)

I was blown away with this book. I'm kind of new to Lewis in that I haven't read much of him (other than the fact that he is quoted all the time in all the other religious books I've read since I was converted). I decided to read this book hoping to familiarize myself with Lewis since he supposedly (from what I've heard) had so much insight.

I didn't want to read a book that is just kind of funny and about demons (that would seem to me to be a waste of time). I loved this book because it is packed with totally awesome insight/truth. I suppose you'll have to read for yourself to see if you agree. However, I just want to tell you how PRACTICAL this book was........I felt that in almost every chapter I was learning about how foolish I AND YOU can be. I always realize that I need to be on my guard agaisnt satan (1 Peter 5:8) but this book opened my eyes much wider to see what that means in so many clear ways, and it is filled with practical examples of how satan decieves us.

I would seriously recommed this book to anyone who truly wants to serve God and grow in grace (2 peter 3:18). Read this if you really want to see Jesus increase as you decrease (John 3:30) and if you want to think about the REALITY of the spiritual war. This book is full of wisdom from Lewis and it could actually be used as a small group study. The reality of every one of these temptations that Lewis talks about could be discussed in a small group of Christians to their great benefit.

God bless you as you are transformed by the renewing your mind (Rom 12:2)

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john

This animal, this thing begotten in a bed, could look on Him.

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2010

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The Screwtape Letters is, I think, the best introduction to Lewis; that is, if you haven't read anything by him, this is the one to begin with. It's entertaining, thought provoking, and insightful. As with all his works, turn to any page, and you're liable to find a timeless Truth worthy of quotation:

"He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."

"It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"

Wondering how anyone could not like this book, I read some of the 1- and 2-star reviews. Some of them, presumably non-believers, comment that this work was too Christian or only of interest to Christians.

What puzzles me is that many atheists and agnostics argue that 'right' and 'wrong' are not the sole province of Christianity; that Western Civilization today does not owe its current sense of what is good (like equal treatment of women and minorities, or treating each other as brothers and sisters, etc.) to Christianity. Then, in the very next breath, they'll reject a book about 'right' and 'wrong' behavior as being only of interest to Christians.

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Perfect Christmas gift

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

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This purchase was the only item by daughter requested as a Christmas gift. The hardback book was in stock and was well received by my daughter ❤️

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Mike Pettengill

If only to obtain a glimpse into the plausible mind of the enemy

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2011

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C.S. Lewis wrote this great book in 1942. Do not dismiss this fictional account as mind candy or rubbish. It is simultaneously amusing, instructive and imaginative.

The premise is that Lewis is reprinting letters written by Screwtape, a veteran devil, to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon. Lewis indicates in the preface that these letters fell into his hands and he has no intention of telling the reader how that occurred.

The series of letters is designed to assist Wormwood in tormenting and distracting a young man who goes through daily life stumbling in and out of the Christian faith. It is educational and humorous to read how a demon might easily dissuade a human from following Christ and encourage a man to focus on himself.

While experience with the thoughts of demons are rare, Lewis summons a very plausible outline of the contemplations and musings of Satan's minions. Such a believable account of the demonic is provided that the reader can find himself fearing for the author's psyche. In the afterward Lewis comments that his excursion into the minds of demons was an unhealthy trip he did not desire to duplicate.

Screwtape cheers as the man falls into temptation and jeers as the man progresses in his faith. While nothing in the book is foul or vulgar, it is admittedly a touch disturbing to wonder through the thought processes of a demon. If only to obtain a glimpse into the plausible mind of the enemy, this book is a worthy read and deeply engaging.

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Jerry H.

Great story!

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023

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I bought this for my wife and we ended up reading it together. If you've never read or heard about this - you must read it! CS Lewis portrays the devil teaching his protegee how to influence people to come over to his side! Humorous!

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Alicia Herrejon

Excelente libro

Reviewed in Mexico on December 3, 2023

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No lo he terminado de leer, pero lo que llevo es buenísimo. El libro es una compilación de enseñanzas increíbles, de cómo funciona la mente humana en lo que al mundo espiritual se refiere, un libro de mucha edificación para los cristianos.
Lo único que tengo que señalar, es que me llegó mal cortado de las páginas, pero Amazon me regresó el dinero. Y también cabe mencionar, que no es un libro fácil de leer, lo pedí en inglés, no es mi lengua materna, pero aún así, yo leo mucho en inglés; libros de 1800, 1700, que igual no son tan fáciles de leer porque el vocabulario de esa época no es igual al actual, pero, este libro en particular, es complicado no por las palabras que usa C.S. Lewis, si no porque los temas que trata, son de naturaleza compleja, a mi parecer.

Fuera de este detalle, que realmente se puede aprovechar para aprender y no tomarlo como algo negativo, es un muy buen libro, edificante.

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Christopher Lennon

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2016

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Lewis like no other shows how pride is at the root of many a great fall!

Fair Minded Consumer

Good book but difficult to read.

Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2012

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I have heard many positive comments of this book and I approached it, expecting it to be brilliant. I have read the Lord of the Rings and I found the writings of Tolkien much easier to read and to keep engaged than this book. The topics within this book are very good and offer a good insight into Christianity and the sins that humanity is plagued with; however I found the first part of this book very difficult for me to keep focused on and the flow was very different for me to grasp.

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