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“In the United States there is more money” – Review of Spearhead, ed. James Laughlin, Times Literary Supplement, April 17, 1948, CW XIX, 3380, p. 316.46
“The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of our time” – Quoted in Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 44.47
“good bad book” – Orwell, “Good Bad Books”, Tribune, November 2, 1945, CW XVII, 2780, p. 348.48
Edmund Wilson – New Yorker, September 7, 1946.49
“the satire deals not” – New Republic, September 2, 1946.50
“No one is patriotic about taxes” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 9, 1940, CW XII, 667, p. 229.51
“fairy gold” – Wadhams, p. 151.52
“Fairly much a leftist” – Allene Talmey, “Vogue Spotlight”, Vogue, September 15, 1946.53
“The Americans always go one better” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 262.54
“anti-American” – Connolly, The Evening Colonnade, p. 383.55
“It ought to be realised” – The English People, CW XVI, 2475, p. 220.56
“a truly remarkable book” – Review of Native Son by Richard Wright, etc., Tribune, April 26, 1940, CW XII, 616, p. 152.57
“The world of the American novelist” – Review of Sun on the Water by L. A. G. Strong, etc., Tribune, April 12, 1940, CW XII, 610, p. 143.58
“It is difficult to go anywhere” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 3, 1943, CW XVI, 2385, p. 13.59
“This anglophile” – Richard McLaughlin letter to Tribune, December 17, 1943, ibid., pp. 14–15.60
“The Nazis, without admitting it” – Arendt, p. 451.61
“It is clear” – New Statesman and Nation, November 2, 1946, quoted in Kynaston, p. 134.62
“To be anti-American nowadays” – “In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus”, August – September(?) 1947, CW XIX, 3254, p. 181.63
“Americophobia” – Orwell, Review of The Nineteen-Twenties by Douglas Goldring, Observer, January 6, 1946, CW XVIII, 2843, p. 21.64
“I don’t, God knows” – Orwell letter to Gollancz, March 25, 1947, CW XIX, 3200, p. 90.65
“Everybody in England” – Kynaston, p. 191.66
“unendurable” – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, April 15, 1947, CW XIX, 3215, p. 128.67
“to the north and east” – Orwell, CW IX, pp. 85–86.68
“I had the feeling that they had spoilt it” – Orwell to Mamaine Koestler, January 24, 1947, CW XIX, 3159, pp. 27–28.69
“He is too fond of apocalyptic visions” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, New Leader, March 29, 1947, CW XIX, 3204, p. 102.70
in a 1947 letter – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, April 15, 1947, CW XIX, 3215, pp. 126–28.71
“a huge secret army” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, pp. 100–101.72
“a doctor treating” – Orwell, “Toward European Unity”, CW XIX, 3244, p. 163.73
“mental disease” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, November 29, 1945, CW XVIII, 3126, p. 504.74
“individual freedom” – Quoted in Scott Lucas, The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens & the New American Century (London: Pluto, 2004), p. 27.75
“If one could somewhere” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, p. 103.76
“very dark” – Orwell, “Toward European Unity”, CW XIX, 3244, p. 167. 158 “As time goes on” – Orwell, “As I Please”, January 17, 1947, CW XIX, 3153, p. 19.77
“a ghastly mess” – Orwell letter to Warburg, February 4, 1948, CW XIX, 3339, p. 264.78
“I don’t like talking about books” – Orwell letter to Warburg, May 31, 1947, CW XIX, 3232, p. 149.79
“rivetted from the start” and “would have taken” – “Mrs. Miranda Wood’s Memoir”, The Complete Works of George Orwell XX: Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living 1949–1950 (Secker & Warburg, 2002), 3735, p. 301.80
“He almost seemed to enjoy it” – Coppard and Crick, p. 231.81
“like a fool” – Orwell letter to Tosco Fyvel, December 31, 1947, CW XIX, 3322, p. 240.82
“I really felt” – Orwell letter to Celia Kirwan (n e Paget), May 27, 1948, CW XIX, 3405, p. 345.83
“with a peculiar feeling of happiness” – Orwell, “Notes from Orwell’s Last Literary Notebook”, CW XX, 3725, p. 203.84
“violently and not too old” – Orwell, “How the Poor Die”, Now, no. 6, November 1946, CW XVIII, 3104, p. 463. «насильственной смертью и не совсем старые», Оруэлл, «Как умирают бедняки»85
“probably forgotten” – Wadhams, p. 197.86
“because the body swells up” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 106.87
In hospital, Orwell tallied – “Things not foreseen in youth as part of middle age”, notebook entry circa May 1948, CW XIX, 3402, p. 340.88
“I suppose with all these drugs” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, April 20, 1948, CW XIX, 3386, pp. 321–22.89
He wondered if there was some medical explanation– Orwell diary entry, March 30, 1948, CW XIX, 3374, p. 307.90
“impossible and undesirable” – Orwell, “Writers and Leviathan”, CW XIX, 3364, p. 292. Оруэлл Дж. Писатели и Левиафан / пер. А. Шишкин. 1988.91
“to push the question” – Ibid., p. 291.92
“Conclusion: must engage” – Orwell, Preparatory notes for “Writers and Leviathan”, 1948, CW XIX, 3365, p. 294.93
“Gissing’s novels” – Preparatory notes for “George Gissing”, 1948, CW XIX, 3407, p. 353.