First published in 1942, The Screwtape Letters has sold millions of copies worldwide and is recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology. A masterpiece of satire, it entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation--and triumph over it--ever written. With beautiful color illustrations by the artist Papas throughout, this new edition also includes C.S. Lewis's own drawing of Screwtape, as well as a retrospective essay written twenty years after the original publication.