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“prisoner of power” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.101
“Is this true” – Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 71.102
“felt enormously at home” – Cyril Connolly, The Evening Colonnade (David Bruce & Watson, 1973), p. 383.103
“They’ll behave like this” and “they preserved the ordinary pattern” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1945, CW XVII, 2672, p. 164.104
“Please sir” – Orwell, War-time Diary, September 21, 1940, CW XII, 691, p. 267.105
“Of course we were painting” – Inez Holden, It Was Different at the Time (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1943), p. 69.106
“How much rubbish” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 14, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 184.107
“Apparently nothing” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 3, 1940, CW XII, 632, p. 176.108
“We cannot beat Hitler” – Orwell, “Our Opportunity”, The Left News, no. 55, January 1941, CW XII, 737, p. 346.109
“written in simple language” – Searchlight Books advertisement, quoted in Crick, p. 402.110
“a land of snobbery and privilege” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Searchlight Books, 1941), CW XII, 763, p. 400. ОруэллДж. Лев и Единорог. Эссе, статьи, рецензии. М.: Московская школа политических исследований, 2003. – 480 с.111
“bound together” – Ibid., p. 401.112
“the privateness of English life” – Ibid., p. 394.113
“the only really positive” – Wadhams, p. 120.114
“George has written a little book” – Eileen Blair letter to Norah Myles, December 5, 1940, The Lost Orwell, p. 80.115
“We are in a strange period of history” – Orwell, “The Home Guard and You”, Tribune, December 20, 1940, CW XII, 725, p. 311.116
“soft-boiled intellectuals” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 427.117
“Here was somebody” – Arena: George Orwell.118
“The revolution in England” – Bew, p. 256.119
“a querulous man who was ailing” – Fyvel, p. 121.Глава 4
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“In the early twentieth century” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 196.2
“I doubt whether” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, Horizon, August 1941, CW XII, 837, p. 539.3
“fearful, moral, morbid questions” – Arena: George Orwell.4
“he might write” – Jacintha Buddicom, Eric and Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell (Leslie Frewin, 1974), p. 39.5
Orwell’s very first published story– “A Peep into the Future”, Election Times, no. 4, June 3, 1918, CW X, 32, pp. 48–50.6
“so disappointed” – Buddicom, p. 15.7
“I have to overwork” – H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells in Love (Faber & Faber, 1984), pp. 34–35.8
“the Man Who Invented Tomorrow” – Norman and Jeannie Mackenzie, The Time Traveller: The Life of H. G. Wells (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), p. 400.9
“this wonderful man” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, CW XII, 837, p. 540. Оруэлл Дж. «1984 и эссе разных лет» / пер. А. Зверева. – М.: Прогресс, 1989.10
“a sort of parricide” – Ibid., p. 539.11
“The Socialist world” – Orwell, CW V, p. 176.12
“the ‘progressives’ ” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 106.13
“lies in that regard” – H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Penguin, 2005), p. 13.14
“vindictive resentment” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 104.15
“nothing more than” – Ibid., p. 102.16
“I had done practically everything” – Ibid., p. 288.17
“a match that man has just got alight” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 87.18
“H. G. Wells is a man of genius” – Quoted in ibid., p. 108.19
“When Wells in his lamp-lit room” – James Gleick, Time Travel: A History (4th Estate, 2017), p. 5.20
“the first well-executed” – Mark Hillegas, The Future As Nightmare: HG Wells and the Anti-utopians (Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 34.21
“It’s rather pleasant” – Wells letter to Sarah Wells, October 13, 1895.22
“It did not take us long” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 116.23
“I make use of physics” – Quoted in ibid., p. 117.24
“world of cooling stars” – Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells, Manchester Evening News, November 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2784, p. 360.25
“I had realised” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 516.26
“the philosopher who masquerades” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 108.27
“able-bodied, clean-minded men” – H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 157. Уэллс Г. Война миров / пер. Е. Зенкевич. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 288с.28
“Everyone who has ever read” – Orwell, Review of The Iron Heel by Jack London, etc., CW XII, 655, p. 211.29
“gigantic glass hive” – H. G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 71. Уэллс Г. Когда Спящий проснется / пер. Е. Н. Бирюкова. – М.: АСТ, 2011. 320 с.30
“our contemporary world” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 645.31
“idiotic slang” – Wells, Sleeper, p. 190.32
“to print permanent memories” – Ibid., p. 154.33
“nightmare of capitalism triumphant” – Ibid., p. 8.34
“It suffers from vast contradictions” – Orwell, CW V, p. 188.35
“worn-out dreams” – Wells, Sleeper, p. 202.36
“monstrous crowds” – Ibid., p. 79.37
“the impulse of passionate inadequacy” – Ibid., p. 212.38
“The hope of mankind” – Ibid., p. 170.