Synopsis: 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 stunningly repackaged and rebranded as part of 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. Review: This was the BCF's Reading Circle choice for March. On the whole I liked it, I certainly enjoyed Screwtapes demonic sense of humour and the more he railed at Wormwood the more I enjoyed it (I must be more wicked than I thought!.) I think, as the synopsis says, it is truly original, I've not read anything like it and it gave me plenty to chew over. At times I wandered a bit (no doubt my own personal Wormwood was doing his job and filling my head with nonsense,) and I had to make a concerted effort not to let my mind stray, but, for the most part, I found it intelligent, insightful and entertaining.
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Reading Circle - The Screwtape Letters
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