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⁹⁴ “a chronicler of vulgarity” – Orwell, “George Gissing”, May – June 1948(?), CW XIX, 3406, p. 352.

⁹⁵ “a world of force and fraud” – Orwell, “Such, Such Were the Joys”, CW XIX, 3409, p. 370. Оруэлл Дж. Славно, славно мы резвились / пер. В. М. Домитеева, Н. А. Анастасьев, Н. Эристави. – М.: АСТ, 2020. 320 с.

⁹⁶ “irrational terrors” – Ibid., p. 383. «иррациональные ужасы», там же

⁹⁷ “exactly like a fat” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 223.

⁹⁸ “It was possible, therefore” – “Such, Such Were the Joys”, CW XIX, 3409 p. 359. Оруэлл Дж. Славно, славно мы резвились / пер. В. М. Домитеева, Н. А. Анастасьев, Н. Эристави. – М.: АСТ, 2020. 320 с.

⁹⁹ “Whether he knew it or not” – New Yorker, January 28, 1956, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 78.

¹⁰⁰ “totalitarians” – Hilary Spurling, The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (Penguin, 2003), p. 68.

¹⁰¹ “What surprised me mostly” – Interview transcript from Arena: George Orwell.

¹⁰² “a book doesn’t exist” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, January 2, 1948, CW XIX, 3325, p. 249.

¹⁰³ “It was a cold, blowy day” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 3.

¹⁰⁴ “spontaneous demonstrations” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 24.

¹⁰⁵ “voluntary subscriptions” – Ibid., p. 59.

¹⁰⁶ “Christian Pacifists” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 37.

¹⁰⁷ “Thus, the Party rejects” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 225.

¹⁰⁸ “a deliberate and sadistic” and “worth a cool million” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on Nineteen Eighty-Four, December 13, 1948, CW XIX, 3505, p. 480.

¹⁰⁹ “slightly underfed” – New York Times, January 5, 1948, quoted in Bew, p. 451.

¹¹⁰ An opinion poll– Kynaston, p. 248.

¹¹¹ he had previously offered to write a piece for Tosco Fyvel– see Coppard and Crick, p. 216.

¹¹² “So far, in spite of the cries” – Orwell, “The Labour Government After Three Years”, Commentary, October 1948, CW XIX, 3461, p. 442.

¹¹³ “caused more resentment” – Ibid., p. 439.

¹¹⁴ “it is doubtful whether we can solve” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, Novem ber 15, 1946, CW XVIII, 3115, p. 483.

¹¹⁵ While Orwell was living in Islington– see Paul Potts, To Keep a Promise (MacGibbon & Kee, 1970), p. 71.

¹¹⁶ “The essence of being human” – Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”, Partisan Review, January 1949, CW XX, 3516, p. 8.

¹¹⁷ Warburg thought so– See Warburg, p. 102.

¹¹⁸ “Everything is flourishing” – Orwell letter to David Astor, December 21, 1948, CW XIX, 3510, p. 485.

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¹ “My new book” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, February 4, 1949, CW XX, 3541, p. 35.

² Eileen wrote a poem – See Sally Coniam, “Orwell and the Origins of Nineteen Eighty-Four”, Times Literary Supplement, December 31, 1999.

³ “it was never possible nowadays” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 9.

⁴ “a beastly book” – Orwell letter to Jacintha Buddicom, February 14, 1949, CW XX, 3550, p. 42.

⁵ “an awful book really” – Orwell letter to Celia Kirwan (n e Paget), February 13, 1949, CW XX, 3549, p. 41.

⁶ “a good idea ruined” – Orwell letter to Anthony Powell, November 15, 1948, CW XIX, 3488, p. 467.

⁷ “I am not pleased” – Orwell letter to Warburg, October 22, 1948, CW XIX, 3477, p. 457.

⁸ “an expensive hobby” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, January 12, 1949, CW XX, 3521, p. 16.

⁹ “it isn’t a book I would gamble on” – Orwell letter to Warburg, December 21, 1948, CW XIX, 3511, p. 486.

¹⁰ “made me spew” – Orwell letter to Brenda Salkeld, August 1934, CW X, 204, p. 347.

¹¹ “was a good idea” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, 3 October 1934, CW X, 209, p. 351.

¹² “any life when viewed” – “Benefit of Clergy”, CW XVI, 2481, p. 234.

¹³ “that I was idling” – Orwell, “Notes from Orwell’s Last literary Notebook”, CW XX, 3725, p. 204.

¹⁴ “schoolboyish sensationalism” – Times Literary Supplement, June 10, 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 256.

¹⁵ “This is amongst the most terrifying” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XIX, 3505, p. 479.

¹⁶ “I cannot but think” – Ibid., p. 481.

¹⁷ “Orwell has done what Wells never did” and “ought to be shot” – David Farrer’s Report on Nineteen Eighty-Four, December 15, 1948, CW XIX, 3506, p. 482.

¹⁸ “as though it were a thriller” – Orwell letter to Roger Senhouse, December 26, 1948, CW XIX, 3513, p. 487.

¹⁹ “We hope you might be interested” – Eugene Reynal letter to J. Edgar Hoover, April 22, 1949.

²⁰ “mucked about” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, March 17, 1949, CW XX, 3575, p. 67.

²¹ Warburg estimated– See Warburg, p. 110.

²² “No wonder everyone hates us so” – Orwell, Diary, April 17, 1949, CW XX, 2602, p. 92.

²³ “Don’t think I am making” – Orwell letter to Warburg, May 16, 1949, CW XX, 3626, p. 116.

²⁴ “exhausted Dickens disastrously” – Orwell, Review of Dickens: His Character, Comedy and Career by Hesketh Pearson, New York Times Book Review, May 15, 1949, CW XX, 3625, p. 115.

²⁵ “about as good a novelist” – Notes for “Evelyn Waugh”, 1949, CW XX, 3586, p. 79.

²⁶ “a sort of grown-upness” – Orwell letter to Wiadomsci, February 25, 1949, CW XX, 3553, p. 47.