Tag Archives: Animal Farm

George Orwell’s Review of C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength” (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

At A Pilgrim in Narnia we have an occasional feature called “Throwback Thursday.” This is where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged 1984, Animal Farm, books, C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, dystopia, fantasy, Fictional Universes, George Orwell, Nazism, Newspeak, Ransom Trilogy, technocracy, technology, That Hideous Strength, totalitarianism, WWII | 66 Comments

“This Year of the Atom”: A Poem on the Anniversary of Hiroshima, by Joy Davidman

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

At 8:15 local time on Aug 6, 1945, American airship Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing about 100,000 people, most of them civilians. On Aug 9th, the American military would reassert their ability to waste the countryside by … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged A Naked Tree, American politics, Animal Farm, Anna Santamaria, Atomic Bomb, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Hiroshima, Japan, Joy Davidman, Nagasaki, That Hideous Strength, war, WWII | 7 Comments

What Counts as a Classic? A Conversation with C.S. Lewis and Goodreads

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a little post called “Reading and the Cultural Moment, with C.S. Lewis.” Though I now think I could have said it even clearer, I was sharing once again C.S. Lewis’ critical idea that … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged 1984, A Wrinkle in Time, Animal Farm, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, Goodreads, Jane Eyre, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Margaret Atwood, Narnia, Netflix, Old Books, On the Reading of Old Books, Terry Pratchett, The Handmaid's Tale, The Hobbit | 48 Comments

Orwellian Advice: A Guest Post by the Mere Inkling

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

The title of this post is slightly misleading. In truth, it does contains advice from Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) whose pen name was George Orwell. However, because of the impact of his two dystopian classics, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Memorable Quotes | Tagged 1984, Animal Farm, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, George Orwell, Politics of the English Language, Science Fiction, The Four Loves, writing | 13 Comments

Is Animal Farm Greater than 1984? C.S. Lewis’ Thoughts about George Orwell’s Work

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

On Dec 12th, 1954 there was a live BBC TV adaption of George Orwell’s chilling dystopia, 1984. Although it was voted one of the top 100 British TV events, it is doubtful that C.S. Lewis took the time to watch it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged 1984, allegory, Animal Farm, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, George Orwell, myth, mythopoiea, That Hideous Strength | 64 Comments

George Orwell’s Review of C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

This week we are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the publication of That Hideous Strength (THS). While George Orwell’s 1984 is considered among the great 20th c. dystopian novels and C.S. Lewis’ THS is read mostly by fans of dystopia or of Lewis’ work, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged 1984, Animal Farm, books, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, fantasy, Fictional Universes, g k chesterton, George Orwell, Nazism, Newspeak, Ransom Trilogy, technocracy, technology, That Hideous Strength, totalitarianism, WWII | 54 Comments

“Men Without Chests”: A C.S. Lewis Doodle

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

This is the 70th anniversary of the publication of C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. While it remains an obscure book, it is an important dystopia from the WWII-era. In fact, it dropped the same week as Animal Farm by George Orwell. Over the next couple … Continue reading →

Posted in Memorable Quotes, Reflections | Tagged 1984, Animal Farm, books, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Doodle, dystopia, George Orwell, Men Without Chests, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man | 19 Comments

An Unpublished Foreword to The Great Divorce

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis’ haunting vision of the afterlife, The Great Divorce, began its publication run 70 years ago today. I was once pressed by Inklings scholar Sørina Higgins to name what I thought was Lewis’ best fiction. Lewis himself preferred Perelandra, … Continue reading →

Posted in Lewis Biography, Original Research | Tagged Animal Farm, C.S. Lewis, Camus, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Sartre, The Great Divorce, The Outsider, The Screwtape Letters, To the Lighthouse, unpublished manuscript, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner | 34 Comments

Some Reflections on my 3 Day Novel Experience

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

I have just finished my 5th weekend writing for the International 3 Day Novel Contest (3DNC). As usual, I’m absolutely exhausted. Like I’ve been pummeled. I’ve done the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and it has its challenges. But there … Continue reading →