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The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

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Author Biography

Name: Clive Staples Lewis
Birth Date: November 29, 1898
Death Date: November 24, 1963
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland
Place of Death: Oxford, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, novelist, essayist

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Biography of Clive Staples Lewis
649 words, approx. 2.2 pages
The British novelist and essayist Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was an established literary figure whose impact is increasingly recognized by scholars and teachers. On November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland. He was the son...
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Biography of C(live) S(taples) Lewis
10321 words, approx. 34.4 pages
Once best known as a Christian apologist and the author of The Screwtape Letters, and admired by at least two generations of scholars as a teacher and literary historian, C. S. Lewis may eventually be most famous for the seven books, collectively referre...
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Biography of C(live) S(taples) Lewis
9973 words, approx. 33.2 pages
Although C. S. Lewis published, as Peter J. Kreeft notes in his C. S. Lewis: A Critical Essay, "some sixty first-quality works of literary history, literary criticism, theology, philosophy, autobiography, Biblical studies, sermons, formal and informal es...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Screwtape Letters Information
2,036 words, approx. 7 pages
The Screwtape Letters is a work of Christian fiction by C.S. Lewis first published in book form in 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, so as to advise him...


News and Journals
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Brookings Review
A Screwtape Letter 1999.
03/22/1999: 2,002 words, approx. 7 pages
Politics can weaken religious values. One way politics is harmful is when it makes participants oblivious to the dangers of worldliness. Politics also generates more emotion and passion, leading to acrimony between participants. Religion can also be weakened when political participants attempt to bend...
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Daily Variety
The Screwtape Letters.(Theater review)
03/07/2006: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
(Theater 315:100 seats: $30 top) A Fellowship for the Performing Arts presentation of a play in two acts by Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean, adapted from the novel by CS. Lewis. Directed by Fiske. Choreography, Jennifer Bernstone. Set, Scott Aronow; costumes, Jessica Lustig;...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Charles A. Brady
945 words, approx. 3 pages
Not many writers nowadays are on such terms of cordial insult with His Infernal Majesty as the ruddy Ulster-born … Mr. Clive Staples Lewis has shown himself to be in what is by now the most phenomenally popular household book of applied religion of the twentieth century, The Screwtape Letters. Not since another Oxford don chose to divest himself of his academic robes and slip down a rabbit-hole with Alice and the White Rabbit has the reading world been given such a divertissement by a race of spectac...
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Symbolism in "The Screwtape Letters"
1,167 words, approx. 4 pages
In C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters," Screwtape's mental state unravels as the plot progresses. The relationship between Wormwood and Screwtape is analgous to a battle between God and the Devil.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
517 words, approx. 2 pages
"The Screwtape Letters" is a correspondence between an experienced demon, Screwtape, and his dear nephew in a temptership on earth, Wormwood.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Screwtape Letters: Image, Emotion, Will of the Human Mind
492 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay is about how Screwtape in the novel by C. S. Lewis makes your thoughts and images about beautiful things grotesque.
 


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