The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. The fame from The Screwtape Letters led to Lewis being on the cover of Time magazine on September 8, 1947. Learn more about my book, …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. “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, …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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 …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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. …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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 …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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 …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. The handwritten manuscript Lewis gave to Sister Penelope eventually made its way to the New York Public Library (in the Berg Collection). Learn more …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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 …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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 …
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The Screwtape Letters is one of many great books by C.S. Lewis. As the publication of my book about it draws near I’m sharing a fact about it each day. 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 …
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