num_pages: 112
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 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.
language: English
title: The Screwtape Letters
titlecomplete: The Screwtape Letters
characters: Wormwood, The Patient, Screwtape
genres: Fantasy, Philosophy, Christian, Theology, Christian Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Faith, Christianity, Religion
ratings_count: 425315
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Nautilus Book Award
category: Audio Books & Spoken Word, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Bantam