World's Last Night

The World's Last Night and Other Essays is a collection of essays by C. S. Lewis published in the United States in 1960. The title essay is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The volume also contains a follow-up to his The Screwtape Letters in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast." The second, fourth and fifth pieces were published in the U.K. in a volume called Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other pieces (1965); the first, sixth and seventh were published in the U.K. in Fern-seed and Elephants and other essays on Christianity (1975). Contents "The Efficacy of Prayer" "On Obstinacy in Belief" "Lilies That Fester" "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" "Good Work and Good Works" "Religion and Rocketry" / "Will We Lose God in Outer Space" "The World's Last Night" / "Christian Hope - Its Meaning for Today"