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C.S. Lewis has been hailed as the...true successor of Dean [Jonathan] Swift .... Screwtape is the name of a diabolical being ranking in intellectual ability with Milton's Beelzebub, and ... Wormwood is his agent on earth whose instructions are to prevent people getting converted to Christianity....[the two] make no secret that human misery is their aim in life....
P.W. Wilson - New York Times (3/28/43)
If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.
The New Yorker
Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.
Los Angeles Times
(Audio version.) Lewis's satire is a Christian classic. Screwtape is a veteran demon in the service of "Our Father Below" whose letters to his nephew and protege , Wormwood, instruct the demon-in-training in the fine points of leading a new Christian astray. Lewis's take on human nature is as on-target as it was when the letters were first published in 1941. John Cleese's narration is perfect as he takes Screwtape from emotional height to valley, from tight control to near apoplexy. This will be a popular in most libraries. —Nann Blaine Hilyard, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., IL
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