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Before the service was over-one could wish these things came more seasonably-I was stuck by an idea for a book which I think might be both useful and entertaining. I have been to Church for the first time for many weeks owing to the illness…. The origins for the series of devilish epistles can be found in a letter which Lewis wrote to his brother Warnie dated July 20, 1940. When the entire collection was published in Britain in 1942 and in the states a year later, The Screwtape Letters became, as Alan Jacobs notes, Lewis’s “first truly popular book.” It would propel Lewis to international fame and eventually put him on the Septemcover of Time magazine, where Lewis was pictured with a little devil on one shoulder and an angel’s wing over the other. On May 2, 1941, British readers opened The Guardian, a weekly Anglican religious newspaper, to find the first in a series of thirty-one strange letters that would arrive in weekly installments, claiming to have been written by a senior devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a novice tempter named Wormwood.

Lewis’s most unusual and most successful works: The Screwtape Letters.