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The Screwtape Letters

Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

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The Screwtape Letters

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Joss Ackland
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On its first appearance, The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. Now, in its 70th anniversary year, and having sold over half a million copies, it is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil.

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’ friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien, The Screwtape Letters is a timeless classic on spiritual warfare and the invisible realities which are part of our religious experience.

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"The book is sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a perfect joy, and should become a classic." ( The Guardian)
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Can't speak more highly of this in every aspect. The reader is excellent. My only small nit-pick would be that having the same voice for both C S Lewis and Screwtape is quite odd, but that's me being extra picky.

Excellent book and excellently read

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Excellent piece of work! Highly recommend to anyone, specially to newly converts or even the elders/leaders of churches and nations.

Exposes the weapons of darkness very well!

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There are many religious books which aim to challenge our thinking about how we live. What makes The Screwtape Letters a classic and still fresh and original more than 70 years is using story (and really good story at that) to bring that challenge. As Screwtape (the senior devil) writes to his struggling nephew Wormwood the failings in human nature that they seek to take advantage of and the way this view from the other side of the mirror asks us to look deeper at ourselves was brilliant when CS Lewis wrote it and has lost nothing with the passage of time.

Joss Ackland's reading is avuncular enough to draw you in and entertain and magisterial enough to fit Screwtape's character.

Top Notch.

Beautifully performed reading of a classic

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This is a brilliant book and the performance by Joss Ackland is perfect. The book shows a profound understanding of the human struggle against temptation, thoughts and sin, and I found it to be even helpful in that unseen warfare. 5/5.

Brilliant & Insightful

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Convicting us in all the small ways we don't seek God, make virtue of our vices and self decieve. Every Christian should read or listen to this. Joss Ackland is perfect as Screwtape.

A must read for any thoughtful Christian

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Excellent and as relevant today as when it was written. Well worth a read for those who follow religion as those who do not.

excellent and thought provoking

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To reawaken the language wit and joy of dialogue is to listen and absorb this story.

To hear this and reflect on the news on your screens - gives a fascinating perspective .

The final instalment is important

Refreshing clarity in dark times

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A book that explores what is going on in the world from the point of view of a tempter cs Lewis always make me think beyond myself

Great insight

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C S Lewis was a great writer, unquestionably, but in the Screwtape Letters he also gives an insight into how a demon might undermine all that is good in Western Liberal Democracy. And scarily it can be seen happening. Like all great stories this works on so many levels: a fun tale for children, a moral lesson for the religious and a political polemic for those who would neuter freedoms hard won. Cannot recommend this highly enough.

Scarily prescient

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Thus is a very creative master piece. CS Lewis was a gifted writer and thinker.

Fantastic

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