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¹⁰³ in a 1943 poll – David Kynaston, Austerity Britain 1945–51 (Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 43.

¹⁰⁴ “In the face of terrifying dangers” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1945, CW XVII, 2672, p. 164.

¹⁰⁵ “I was wrong on several points” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Fall 1945, CW XVII, 2719, p. 246.

¹⁰⁶ “no one was more surprised” – Bew, p. 348.

¹⁰⁷ “that queer, dramatic, dreamlike day” and “the temporary head” – Mollie Panter-Downes, “Letter from London”, New Yorker, August 4, 1945.

¹⁰⁸ “the fundamental decencies of life” – Bew, p. 233.

¹⁰⁹ “in accordance with the native genius” – Ibid., p. 235.

¹¹⁰ “brings to the fierce struggle” – Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960 (Victor Gollancz, 1997), p. 233.

¹¹¹ “the invisible man” – Tribune, March 30, 1945.

¹¹² “a recently dead fish” – Orwell, War-time Diary, May 19, 1942, CW XIII, 1182, p. 331.

¹¹³ “colourless” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, pp. 248–49. “Some of the generals” – Lord Attlee, “The Man I Knew”, Observer, January 31, 1965.

¹¹⁴ “As a sign of the vitality of democracy” – Orwell, “The British General Election”, Commentary, November 1945, CW XVII, 2777, p. 340.

¹¹⁵ “I just thought the alteration” – Orwell letter to Roger Senhouse, March 17, 1945, CW XVII, 2635, p. 90.

¹¹⁶ “To me this single sentence” – Warburg, p. 51.

¹¹⁷ “the destruction of the Soviet myth” – Orwell, Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm, March 1947, CW XIX, 3198, p. 88.

¹¹⁸ “It is a sad fable” – Graham Greene, Evening Standard, August 10, 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 196.

¹¹⁹ “a sort of fairy story” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, March 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2436, p. 126.

¹²⁰ “the tops” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, January 25, 1947, CW XIX, 3163, p. 32.

¹²¹ “To say that I was horrified” – Margaret Atwood, “George Orwell: Some Personal Connections”, reprinted in Curious Pursuits, p. 333.

¹²² “sinister enchanter” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 17.

¹²³ “some kind of invisible influence” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell VIII: Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 53.

¹²⁴ “theoretical possibility” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 309.

¹²⁵ “They all remembered” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 53.

¹²⁶ “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL” – Ibid., p. 90.

¹²⁷ “Are you certain” – Ibid., pp. 43–44.

¹²⁸ “But you could prove nothing” – Orwell, CW IX, 38–39.

¹²⁹ “Ah, that is different” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 55.

¹³⁰ “Thou watchest over all” – Ibid., p. 63.

¹³¹ “Four legs good” – Ibid., p. 21.

¹³² “though she lacked the words” – Ibid., p. 59.

¹³³ “the huge and simple question” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 96.

¹³⁴ “Once it went sad in the middle” – Wadhams, p. 159.

¹³⁵ “never liked being associated” – Coppard and Crick, p. 195.

¹³⁶ In September 1941– Crick, p. 395.

¹³⁷ Foreign translations– See Paul Potts in Coppard and Crick, p. 253.

¹³⁸ “I have been surprised” – Orwell letter to Philip Rahv, April 9, 1946, CW XVIII, 2966, p. 231.

¹³⁹ some bookshops had mistakenly racked it– See Susan Watson in Coppard and Crick, p. 220.

¹⁴⁰ “looking more like a monkey on a stick” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 7, 1944, 2401, p. 55.

¹⁴¹ “I belong to the Left” – Orwell letter to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, November 15, 1945, CW XVII, 2795, p. 385.

¹⁴² Orwell had told A. J. Ayer– Wadhams, p. 168.

¹⁴³ “the danger of this kind of perfection” – William Empson letter to Orwell, August 24, 1945, reprinted in Crick p. 492.

¹⁴⁴ “the mushiest and most maudlin” – Mayhew (ed.), p. 153.

¹⁴⁵ “to hell with it” – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, December 5, 1946, CW XVIII, 3218, p. 506.

¹⁴⁶ “reaching the exhaustion” – Kingsley Martin, New Statesman and Nation, September 8, 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 197.

¹⁴⁷ “hunger, hardship and disappointment” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 87. “all the seeds of evil” – Orwell, “Catastrophic Gradualism”, CW XVII, 2778, p. 343.

¹⁴⁸ “The most encouraging fact” – Introduction to British Pamphleteers, vol. 1, edited by Orwell and Reginald Reynolds, 1948, CW XIX, 3206, p. 109.

¹⁴⁹ “If people think” – Orwell letter to Macdonald, CW XVIII, 3218, p. 507. “In England you can’t get paper” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, p. 249.

¹⁵⁰ A Mass Observation survey in June – Kynaston, p. 69.

¹⁵¹ “The mood of the country” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, p. 246.

¹⁵² “enormous economic blitz”, “Almost the only thing”, “In England, as elsewhere” – Panter-Downes, “Letter from London”, New Yorker, September 1, 1945.

¹⁵³ “all too topical” – Orwell, Review of That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, Manchester Evening News, August 16, 1945, CW XVII, 2720, p. 250.

¹⁵⁴ “This is not a moment” – Orwell, Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether, CW XVII, 2784, p. 359.

¹⁵⁵ “the kind of world-view” – Orwell, “You and the Atom Bomb”, Tribune, October 19, 1945, CW XVII, 2770, p. 321.