A masterpiece of satire, this basic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over using its sly and ironic portrayal of human life through the vantage point of Screwtape, an extremely placed assistant to ‘Our Father Below.’ At once wildly comic, dangerous serious, and strikingly unique, C. S. Lewis provides us the correspondence from the ­worldly-wise previous devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of protecting the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Characters is the most engaging and humorous accounts of temptation-and overcome it-ever written.