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²⁷ “They would get hold of five kilograms” – Ibid., p. 95.

²⁸ “a novel of character” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on His Visit to Orwell, June 14, 1949, CW XX, 3645, p. 132.

²⁹ “frightful cigarettes” – Daily Mirror, December 14, 1954.

³⁰ “an inexhaustible rocket fuel” – John Lehmann, quoted in Spurling, p. 53.

³¹ “With a round Renoir face” – Stephen Spender, journal entry, December 24, 1980, in New Selected Journals 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (Faber & Faber, 2012), p. 586.

³² “My own father had died” – Spurling, p. 27.

³³ “meanwhile take care” – Orwell letter to Sonia Brownell, April 12, 1947, CW XIX, 3212, p. 124.

³⁴ “so-called humanism” – Spurling, p. 77.

³⁵ “a bag of wind” – Orwell letter to Warburg, October 22, 1948, CW XIX, 3477, p. 457.

³⁶ “I’m good at spotting people” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 128.

³⁷ “her youth and prettiness” – Spurling, p. 93.

³⁸ “atmosphere of hockey-fields” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 12.

³⁹ “only a rebel” – Ibid., p. 163.

⁴⁰ “It was characteristic” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 101.

⁴¹ “ ‘Who cares?’ ” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 161.

⁴² “The Nazis explained” – Randall Swingler, “The Right to Free Expression”, Polemic, no. 5, September – October 1946, CW XVIII, 3090, pp. 433–34.

⁴³ “The ideal subject” – Arendt, p. 622.

⁴⁴ “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world” – Ibid., p. 500.

⁴⁵ “dual standard of thought” – Orwell, “The Last Man in Europe”, CW XV, 2377, p. 368.

⁴⁶ fifty thousand TV licences– Kynaston, p. 305.

⁴⁷ “some kind of mental instability” – Quoted in Gordon Bowker, George Orwell (Hachette Digital, 2003), p. 162.

⁴⁸ “I would like to reassure” – Joe Moran, Armchair Nation (Profile, 2013), p. 27.

⁴⁹ “The only person” – Arendt, p. 444.

⁵⁰ “asleep or awake” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 29.

⁵¹ “infallible and all-powerful” – Ibid., p. 216.

⁵² “His portrait is seen” – Crossman (ed.), p. 191.

⁵³ “the insoluble mystery”, etc. – Boris Souvarine, Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism, trans. C. L. R. James (Secker & Warburg, 1939), p. xiii.

⁵⁴ “The chief qualification” – Arendt, p. 456.

⁵⁵ “Does he exist” and “As long as you live” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 272.

⁵⁶ “Fantasmagoric effect” – Orwell, “The Last Man in Europe”, CW XV, 2377, p. 368.

⁵⁷ “Everything melted into mist” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 38.

⁵⁸ “faded away” – Ibid., p. 44.

⁵⁹ “in the place where there is no darkness” and “Winston did not know” – Ibid., p. 27.

⁶⁰ “predestined horror” – Ibid., p. 146.

⁶¹ “impending death” – Ibid., p. 158.

⁶² “the working-out of a process” and “The end was contained in the beginning” – Ibid., p. 166.

⁶³ “In this game that we’re playing” – Ibid., p. 142.

⁶⁴ “Don’t deceive yourself ” – Ibid., p. 251.

⁶⁵ “He was the tormentor” – Ibid., p. 256.

⁶⁶ “a wave of admiration” – Ibid., p. 182.

⁶⁷ “priest of power” – Ibid., p. 276.

⁶⁸ “lifted clean” – Ibid., p. 172.

⁶⁹ “as though their two minds” – Ibid., p. 19.

⁷⁰ “writing the diary” – Ibid., p. 84.

⁷¹ “There was no idea” – Ibid., p. 268.

⁷² “how to discover” – Ibid., p. 201.

⁷³ “This drama that I have played out” – Ibid., p. 281.

⁷⁴ “A government based on terrorism” – Muggeridge, The Thirties, p. 208.

⁷⁵ “victory after victory” —Orwell, CW IX, p. 281.

⁷⁶ “in the long run probably” – Orwell, “The Prevention of Literature”, CW XVII, 2792, p. 374.

⁷⁷ “We control matter” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 277.

⁷⁸ “How many fingers” – Ibid., p. 264.

⁷⁹ “a kind of arithmetic [sic] progression” – New Republic, March 16, 1953, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 315.

⁸⁰ “The object of persecution” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 276.

⁸¹ “The moral to be drawn” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 134.

⁸² “Mankind was living” – London Times, June 8, 1949.

⁸³ “with cries of terror” – New York Times Book Review, July 31, 1949.

⁸⁴ “I read it with such cold shivers” – John Dos Passos letter to Orwell, October 8, 1949, CW XX, 3698, p. 194.

⁸⁵ Several booksellers told Warburg– See Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 331.

⁸⁶ “too terrible a novel” – E. M. Forster, quoted in Warburg, p. 116.

⁸⁷ “a glorious book” – Arthur Koestler letter to Orwell, August 26, 1949, CW XX, 3681A, p. 328.

⁸⁸ “profoundly important” – Huxley letter to Orwell, October 21, 1949.

⁸⁹ “the novel which should stand” – Margaret Storm Jameson quoted in George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick (Clarendon University Press, 1984), p. 96.

⁹⁰ “Reading it in a Communist country” – Quoted in Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3643, p. 129.

⁹¹ “the type of state” – Hansard, HC Deb, July 21, 1949, vol. 467, col. 1623.

⁹² “I thought Nineteen Eighty-Four was a frightful, miserable, defeatist book” – Wadhams, p. 205.

⁹³ “barely distinguishable” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 205.

⁹⁴ “Behind Stalin” – Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, p. 61.

⁹⁵ “the totalitarian danger” – Frankfurter Rundschau, November 5, 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 281.

⁹⁶ “Orwell, actually” – New Leader, June 25, 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 264.