The Screwtape Letters, a satirical novel that focuses on the religious struggle of one unnamed man, is one of the most influential works of C.S. Lewis. The story unfolds through the eyes of Screwtape, a highly placed under-secretary to Lucifer, affectionately known as 'Our Father Below'. Through a series of letters addressed his nephew, Wormwood, a young demon tasked only with securing the hellish eternity of the anonymous man, Screwtape bestows knowledge on how to capture a soul. Throughout his letters to Wormwood, we learn that the religious peaks and valleys of Wormwood's patient are set against the backdrop of wartime England. Originally published in book form in early 1942, World War II plays a big part in the novel. Screwtape himself does not pay much heed to war and advises his nephew to do the same, but the human patient faces seemingly endless German bombing raids and the uncomfortable daily reminder that he is mortal and can die at just about any moment. The war, in fact, ultimately plays a pivotal role in sealing the patient's eternity.

ABOUT THE BOOK C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce first appeared serially in the Anglican publication The Guardian in 14 installments from November 1944 to April 1945, the same publication that published Lewis' The Screwtape Letters in 1941. Influenced by Lewis' own experiences as a soldier in World War I and with World War II still raging at the time of its creation (it was written in 1943), The Great Divorce emerged at a time when the question of how a benevolent God could allow such unprecedented human suffering was on the minds of thinkers great and small. The title refers to Romantic poet, illustrator, and author William Blake and his work, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790). Both works attempt to describe, in contemporary terms, the author's conception of a Christian Heaven and Hell. For Blake, the two are married as fluid parts of the same dynamic, unified order. Lewis presents their divorce, if not from an interrelationship then from the idea that there can be an afterlife in which one enjoys the best of both "If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell." EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Feeling miserable after his conversation with the Hard-Bitten Man, the narrator is plagued with doubt, wondering if the whole business of the bus trip is merely meant, as the Hard-Bitten man implied, for the angels to mock the damned. Troubled, he journeys on to a thick wood where he spies a Well-Dressed Woman trying to hide herself from an angel. The woman is ashamed of what she's wearing compared to the angels, and despite the angel's insistence it is of no consequence, she can't relinquish her vanity. The angel then blows a loud horn that summons a herd of enormous unicorns, shaking the ground with their stampede. The woman, frightened, screams and leaves, as does the narrator. In this chapter Lewis pokes fun at the rather flimsy vanity people (in this case a woman) cling to when they become ashamed to participate in something-even Heaven-because they don't feel they have something appropriate to wear for the occasion. "How can I go out like this among a lot od people with real solid bodies?," she asks. "It's far worse than going out with nothing on would have been on Earth. Have everyone staring through me." Buy the book to continue reading! Follow @hyperink on Twitter! Visit us at www.facebook.com/hyperink! Go to www.hyperink.com to join our newsletter and get awesome freebies! CHAPTER OUTLINE Background and Basics + About the Book + About the Author + Overall Summary Discussion and Analysis + Chapter-by-Chapter Summary and Analysis Key Information + Character List + Notable Terms and Definitions + Major Themes and Symbols + Interesting C.S. Lewis Facts References + Sources and Additional Reading C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce

Temptation and Deception Made Easy The demon Wormwood first became famous through his correspondence with his uncle Screwtape, published in The Screwtape Letters. We are now privileged to peruse his field notebook from that demonic training session, complete with scribbles, notes, and excerpts from his uncle's letters. Wormwood's instructions, mission statements, and maxims for special occasions create a "best of Screwtape" that offers witty and cutting strategies for how best to corrupt a brand new Christian and steal him from the "Enemy" -- God. If the best defense is to know your opponent's game book, this is a must read for all those who want to retain their souls.

DigiCat presents to you this unique collection with carefully picked out novels and short stories dealing with themes such as the presence of god, religion, theology and spirituality. Table of Contents: Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) Paradise Lost (John Milton) The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) Zadig (Voltaire) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace) Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz) In His Steps (Charles M. Sheldon) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry Van Dyke) The Ball and the Cross (G. K. Chesterton) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Grand Inquisitor (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) The Holy War (John Bunyan) Callista: A Tale of the Third Century (John Henry Newman) Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome (James De Mille) The Temptation of St. Anthony (Gustave Flaubert) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain) Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson) The Child of the Dawn (Arthur Christopher Benson) Where Love is There God is Also (Leo Tolstoy) Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (John Henry Newman) The Uncalled (Paul Laurence Dunbar) The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford) The Revolt of the Angels (Anatole France) The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain) The Sorrows of Satan (Marie Corelli) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Lilith (George MacDonald) Grace (James Joyce) The Student (Anton Chekhov) The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis) The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis) Saul of Tarsus (Elizabeth Miller) A Deal with the Devil (Eden Phillpotts)