George Orwell and Religion

Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Graham Greene: Fiction, Faith and Authorship (2010).

• Introduction1. Childhood, Down and Out in Paris and London and Burmese Days2. A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier3. The Spanish Civil War, Coming Up for Air and the Outbreak of World War II4. World War II and Animal Farm5. The Last Years and 1984BibliographyIndex

As Brennan's detailed book shows, Orwell's thoughts on religious belief and institutions were complex and sometimes conflicting ... Orwell and Religion convincingly presents Orwell's anti-Catholicism as an exception to his capacity for temperate analysis and self-analysis. Brennan shows how Orwell's readers ought not to overlook the discordant elements in his work.