![]() ![]() Consisting of thirty-one short missives, Lewis captures the heart of Satan’s work to discourage and deceive the faithful in masterful form. Probably noticing the hypocrisy around him at the time, he imagined an elderly demon, Screwtape, writing advice on practical deception and temptation to his nephew and protégé, Wormwood. Was thought in Lewis’s mind while he was sitting in church in July 1940. Others have written fantasy and science fiction from a Christian perspective, but none have so brilliantly described the devil’s mind as C. But as popular as these were, the one work that stands out as the most profound and often quoted of them all is the one with the strange title, , appears on serious lists of great works as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Works on works of popular theology such as The Screwtape Letters: Lewis, C S: 9781444424096: : Books But after his conversion to Christianity in the 1930s, he began to write a wide variety of works about his faith. ![]() ![]() A professor at Oxford from 1925 to 1954, he published a number of academic scholarly works, including one on English literature in the Sixteenth Century which won him election to the British Academy (a very high literary honour). ![]()
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