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SUMMARY This section chiefly concerns the sale of the college property. It catalogs the meeting of the fellows of Bracton and how the Progressive Element managed to work their will to sell Bragdon Wood, including Merlin’s Well, to the National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments (abbreviated NICE from here on out). NICE is designed to be … Continue reading “That Hideous Strength – Chapter One: Sale of College Property – Section 4”

SUMMARY Here we have a description of the author’s (Lewis) experience of Bragdon Wood, part of the grounds of Bracton College. He feels quite lucky to have had the chance to enter as only “very few people are allowed into Bragdon Wood” (18). Once present he falls asleep in this peaceful place until he is … Continue reading “That Hideous Strength – Chapter One, Section Three”

SUMMARY Here Mark Studdock, husband of Jane, is introduced more directly and formally, I guess. He’s a faculty member at Bracton College, a small (fictional) liberal arts school in the small (also fictional) town of Edgestow in England. He’s been trying to get into the “inner circle” and finally seems to have made it as … Continue reading “That Hideous Strength – Chapter One, Section Two”

SUMMARY Jane Studdock is introduced in sentence one (page 11 – I always love it when a book starts on page 11; I start out feeling like I’m so far ahead) and will be the primary protagonist. She is recently married to Mark and struggling to adjust to married life. There is much housework to … Continue reading “That Hideous Strength – Chapter One, Section 1”

Quick note: I was going to do a chapter at a time, but the chapters are long and already divided into numbered sections. So I’ll use that numbering instead of just whole chapters. The chapters are long after all.

That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups Lewis makes a few notes in his Preface to That Hideous Strength that I think are noteworthy. The first is to pick on the fact that the novel is subtitled A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups. This subtitle is regrettably left off the cover of my edition though … Continue reading “That Hideous Strength – Preface”

So I took a break from this project, obviously. I wanted to read some other things. A few notes before I start: One – the edition I’m reading is a Scribner edition and it looks like this:  That’s for the page numbers. If you have another edition, the page numbers will be off. Secondly I … Continue reading “That Hideous Strength”

SUMMARY A committee meeting at the NICE, the deputy director presides. The only items under discussion are the acquiring of land and destruction of a church in Edgestow (this undoubtedly involved the Dimbles’s house) and the murder of William Hingest – Bill the Blizzard to Mark. The silver lining, according to Wither was that the … Continue reading “The Hideous Strength – The Liquidation of Anachronisms, Section 4 (Chapter 4.4)”