(On preferring Animal Farm to 1984)
To begin with, it is very much the shorter of the two. This in itself would not, of course, show it to be better. I am the last person to think so. Callimachus, to be sure, thought a great book a great evil, but then I think Callimachus a great prig. My appetite is hearty and when I sit down to read I like a square meal. But in this instance the shorter book seems to do all that the longer does…
CS Lewis on George Orwell
