“Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” the follow-up essay from Lewis, is about five times the length of the average letter from Screwtape. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, …
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In the new preface to the 1961 edition Lewis joked about The Screwtape Letters being the type of book “that gravitates towards spare bedrooms, there to live a life of undisturbed tranquility.” Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear …
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According to Walter Hooper, Lewis had likely finished writing all of The Screwtape Letters by the end of 1940. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, All About …
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The idea for Screwtape actually came to Lewis during a church service. He told his brother about it in a letter from July 1940: “It…would consist of letters from an elderly retired devil to a young devil who has just started work on his first ‘patient’.” Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page …
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In a letter Lewis wrote to Roy W. Harrington (on January 19, 1948), he stated that The Screwtape Letters was the book he “enjoyed writing least.” Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my …
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The handwritten manuscript Lewis gave to Sister Penelope eventually made its way to the New York Public Library (in the Berg Collection). Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast …
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Lewis sent the original handwritten manuscript of The Screwtape Letters to Sister Penelope on October 9, 1941. She was a friend who was an Anglican Nun of the Community of Saint Mary the Virgin. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. …
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Prior to Geoffrey Bles publishing The Screwtape Letters they released a book by Lewis in 1940 called The Problem of Pain. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on …
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The second preface Lewis wrote for The Screwtape Letters is not always included in reprints and if it is, it is sometimes placed at the end of the letters. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I …
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When the 1961 edition of The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast came out it contained a new preface from Lewis. Learn more about my book, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell, by getting a FREE 20 page PDF sample of it. You can now download it immediately at ScrewtapeCompanion.com. Hear a short talk I did about my book on my podcast show, …
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