The Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with 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, CS Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation — and triumph over it — ever written. 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 ) "CS 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) "CS Lewis understood, like few in the past century, just how deeply faith is both imaginative and rational." (Christianity Today)