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Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis x-book

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Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Narrator
Peter Noble
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publish Date
13 July 2017
Run Time
4 hours 3 minutes
Format
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The only official sequel, penned by Lewis himself, to the ever-popular ‘Screwtape Letters’ – published alongside other short essays.

One of the most popular books ever to come from the pen of C.S. Lewis was written in the name of Screwtape, a senior devil, experienced in the art of luring his ‘patients’ on earth to their own damnation in service of ‘our father below’ – and training others to do the same.

Screwtape’s correspondence with his nephew, an apprentice devil, came into Lewis’s hands, he said, by a route he would not disclose, and many a reader has finished the collection longing for more of the insights they gained from its wisdom.

Much to Lewis’s resistance, this after-dinner speech, given by Screwtape to a graduating class of demons at a college in hell, came to light a few years after the publication of the original letters. Now 75 years later, the speech is reproduced in full once more, along with a short collection of Lewis’s other lesser-known, but perennial works.

Many people will have forgotten about the only official ‘sequel’ that exists to Screwtape; the 75th anniversary of Screwtape’s publication is the perfect opportunity to bring this back.

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  • ‘I find I am constantly realising that I owe many of my most basic convictions about Christian faith to Lewis’s imagination.’
    Rowan Williams

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Author
C. S. Lewis
Narrator
Peter Noble
Duration
4 hours 3 minutes
Release Date
13 July 2017
ISBN
9780008207458
Format
x-book®
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Genre
Autobiography: religious and spiritual, Christian life and practice, Spirituality and religious experience, Sermons, Satanism / demonology, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings, Theology, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

Synopsis

The only official sequel, penned by Lewis himself, to the ever-popular ‘Screwtape Letters’ – published alongside other short essays. One of the most popular books ever to come from the pen of C.S. Lewis was written in the name of Screwtape, a senior devil, experienced in the art of luring his ‘patients’ on earth to their own damnation in service of ‘our father below’ – and training others to do the same. Screwtape’s correspondence with his nephew, an apprentice devil, came into Lewis’s hands, he said, by a route he would not disclose, and many a reader has finished the collection longing for more of the insights they gained from its wisdom. Much to Lewis’s resistance, this after-dinner speech, given by Screwtape to a graduating class of demons at a college in hell, came to light a few years after the publication of the original letters. Now 75 years later, the speech is reproduced in full once more, along with a short collection of Lewis’s other lesser-known, but perennial works. Many people will have forgotten about the only official ‘sequel’ that exists to Screwtape; the 75th anniversary of Screwtape’s publication is the perfect opportunity to bring this back.

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