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⁹⁷ “his book reinforces” – Life, July 4, 1949.

⁹⁸ “required reading” – Evening Standard, June 7, 1949.

⁹⁹ “sickness” – Masses and Mainstream, August 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 274.

¹⁰⁰ “cynical rot” – Ibid., p. 275.

¹⁰¹ “filthy book” – Pravda, May 12, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 282.

¹⁰² “blank hopelessness” – Quoted in Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3643, p. 128.

¹⁰³ “if I was going to smear somebody” – Orwell letter to Mr. Shaw, June 20, 1949, CW XX, 3650, p. 139.

¹⁰⁴ “some very shame-making publicity” – Orwell letter to Richard Rees, July 28, 1949, CW XX, 3669, p. 154.

¹⁰⁵ “will pretend to be much more” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 134.

¹⁰⁶ “NOT intended as an attack on socialism” and “I do not believe” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 136.

¹⁰⁷ “didn’t do two pennorth of good” – Warburg, p. 119.

¹⁰⁸ “Having read Mr. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” – NBC University Theater: Nineteen Eighty-Four, NBC, August 27, 1949.

¹⁰⁹ “kinetic” – New York Times, June 12, 1949.

¹¹⁰ “shocking” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on His Visit to Orwell, CW XX, 3645, p. 131.

¹¹¹ “Orwell was totally unfit” – Jeffrey Meyers, Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), p. 304.

¹¹² “slightly macabre” – Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 354.

¹¹³ “Her body seemed” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 143.

¹¹⁴ “He said he would get better” – Spurling, p. 96.

¹¹⁵ “the astonishing selfishness” – Review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett, The Adelphi, March 1931, CW XI, 103, p. 197.

¹¹⁶ “skin and bone” – Wadhams, p. 210.

¹¹⁷ “There was a kind of rage” – Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 368.

¹¹⁸ “A silence fell” – George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit, p. 45.

¹¹⁹ “fast, clear, gray prose” – New Statesman and Nation, January 28, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 296.

¹²⁰ “the wintry conscience” – Ibid., p. 294.

¹²¹ “the greatness and tragedy” – Observer, January 29, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 297.

¹²² “exceptional concordance” – Ibid., p. 296.

¹²³ “how the legend of a human being” – Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 376.

¹²⁴ “everyone else – above all Pritchett” – Quoted in Cesarani, p. 347.

¹²⁵ “She had persuaded herself ” – Spurling, p. 99.

¹²⁶ “She blamed herself ” – Wadhams, p. 211.

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¹ “If that is what the world is going to be like” – Daily Mirror, December 13, 1954.

² “the production and message” – Memo, D. K. Wolfe-Murray to Director of Television Broadcasting, December 16, 1954.

³ “the subject of the sharpest controversy” – New York Times, December 17, 1954.

⁴ “horrible play” – Daily Mirror, December 16, 1954.

⁵ “cold eyes stared” – Films and Filming, September 1958, quoted in Jason Jacobs, The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (Clarendon Press, 2000), p. 138.

⁶ “It was so awful” – Daily Mirror, December 13, 1954.

⁷ “Never has anything more vile” – Daily Express, December 14, 1954.

⁸ “a nauseating story” – Daily Mirror, December 13, 1954.

⁹ “a picture of a world” – Daily Mirror, December 17, 1954.

¹⁰ “A Million NIGHTMARES” – Daily Express, December 14, 1954.

¹¹ “pander to sexual and sadistic tastes” – Daily Mirror, December 15, 1954.

¹² “Listeners!” – The Goon Show, “Nineteen Eighty-Five”, BBC Home Service, January 4, 1955.

¹³ “probably acquire” – Bernard Hollowood, “On the Air”, Punch, December 22, 1954, quoted in Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 279.

¹⁴ “if someone had written a novel in 1910” – Daily Express, December 14, 1954.

¹⁵ “the beastliness of Communism” and “probably arose” – Daily Mail, December 14, 1954.

¹⁶ “the lowest essence” – Guardian, December 22, 1954.

¹⁷ “a typical brain-washing letter” – Guardian, December 29, 1954.

¹⁸ “an ideological superweapon” – Isaac Deutscher, “1984: The Mysticism of Cruelty”, reprinted in Williams (ed.), p. 119.

¹⁹ “marginal” – London Times, December 16, 1954.

²⁰ The Secker & Warburg hardback– for sales figures see Warburg, pp. 114–115.

²¹ “Kipling is the only English writer” – Orwell, “Rudyard Kipling”, Horizon, February 1942, CW XIII, 948, p. 157.

²² “Some of the words he coined” – Nigel Kneale, “The Last Rebel of Airstrip One”, Radio Times, December 10, 1954.

²³ “[Flair] is a leap into the Orwellian future” – Mary McCarthy, “Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue”, July-August 1950, reprinted in On the Contrary (Heinemann, 1962), p. 187.

²⁴ “what the late George Orwell” – Hansard, HC Deb, November 2, 1950, vol. 480, col. 353.

²⁵ “a very remarkable book” – Quoted in Taylor, p. 419.

²⁶ “I thought it was a term of affection” – Hansard, HC Deb, June 18, 1956, vol. 554, col. 1026.

²⁷ “the book written by the late Mr. George Orwell” – Hansard, HL, February 7, 1951, vol. 170, col. 216.

²⁸ “Orwell was really” – Spender, World Review, June 1950.

²⁹ “the man who tells the truth” – Lionel Trilling, “George Orwell and the Politics of Truth”, reprinted in Williams (ed.), p. 79.

³⁰ “It is chiefly for the sake” – Arendt, p. 601.