36 “an impending social cataclysm” – Bellamy, Looking Backward, p. 11. “When I came to consider” – Quoted in Cantor, Patai (ed.), p. 33.

37 “In the radicalness of the opinions” – Edward Bellamy letter to William Dean Howells, June 17, 1888, quoted in Pfaelzer, p. 43.

38 “the followers of the red flag” – Bellamy, Looking Backward, p. 148. “a hideous, ghastly mistake” – Ibid., p. 191.

39 “the belief that the truth” – Orwell, “Writers and Leviathan”, Politics and Letters, Summer 1948, CW XIX, 3364, p. 289.

40 “A vast conspiracy” – Pfaelzer, p. 121.

41 “not only aroused” – Quoted in Rosemont, Patai (ed.), pp. 162–63.

42 “Edwardina” – Quoted in Pfaelzer, p. 36.

43 “the obvious, necessary” – Edward Bellamy, Equality (William Heinemann, 1897), p. 14.

44 “What a pity” – Quoted in Rosemont, Patai (ed.), p. 191.

45 “books on the twentieth” – The Literary World, July 19, 1890, quoted in Roemer, p. 7.

46 “The frontier has gone” – Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, 1893.

47 “a counterblast” – Quoted in Warren W. Wagar, “Dreams of Reason”, in Patai (ed.), p. 113.

48 “cockney paradise” – MacCarthy, p. 584.

49 “a sort of goody-goody” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.

50 “we should most of us be very unhappy” – C. R. Attlee, The Social Worker (G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1920), p. 141.

51 “Have they got it all right” – Jerome K. Jerome, “The New Utopia”, Diary of a Pilgrimage (J. W. Arrowsmith, 1891), p. 265.

52 “one language, one law, one life” – Ibid., p. 276.

53 “Memory is the principle” – Edward Bellamy, Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process (D. Appleton, 1880), quoted in Rosemont, Patai (ed.), p. 151.

54 “rending the veil of self ” – Edward Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come” in The Blindman’s World and Other Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1898), quoted in Wagar, Patai (ed.), p. 112.

55 “Do you begin to see” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 279.

56 “rather painful reading” – Orwell, Review of The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde, Observer, May 9, 1948, CW XIX, 3395, p. 333.

57 “may demand the impossible” – Ibid., p. 334.

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1 “The future, at any rate” – Orwell, Review of Journey Through the War Mind by C. E. M. Joad, Time and Tide, no. 8, 1940, CW XII, 635, pp. 178–79.

2 “As it is if I start in August” – Orwell letter to Jack Common, May 22, 1938, in CW XI, 443, p. 149.

3 “stop thinking” – Quoted in Crick, p. 367.

4 “We called him Marx” – Eileen Blair letter to Norah Myles, January 1, 1938, The Lost Orwell, compiled and annotated by Peter Davison (Timewell Press, 2006), p. 72.

5 “rather a dull country” – Orwell letter to John Sceats, November 24, 1938, CW XI, 504, p. 237.

6 “a thin disguise for jingo imperialism” – Orwell, Review of Lewis and Silone, June 8, 1939, CW XI, 547, p. 354.

7 “fascising” – Orwell letter to Herbert Read, March 5, 1939, in CW XI, 536, p. 340.

8 “that if Fascism wins” – E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951), p. 23.

9 One of his favourite quotations – Orwell, Review of The Tree of Gernika by G. L. Steer and Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler, Time and Tide, February 5, 1938, CW XI, 421, p. 113.

10 “Fascism after all” – Orwell letter to Geoffrey Gorer, September 15, 1937, CW XI, 397, p. 80.

11 “Fascism and so-called democracy” – Orwell letter to Amy Charlesworth, August 30, 1937, CW XI, 393, p. 77.

12 He even planned – see Orwell letter to Herbert Read, January 4, 1939, CW XI, 522, p. 313.

13 “the future must be catastrophic” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 8, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 181.

14 “the feeling of futility” – Orwell, Review of Personal Record 1928–1939 by Julian Green, Time and Tide, April 13, 1940, in CW XII, 611, p. 145.

15 “But the dugout” – Eileen Blair letter to Marjorie Dakin, September 27, 1938, CW XI, 487, p. 205.

16 “a stifling, stultifying world” – Orwell, CW II, p. 69.

17 “It is a corrupting thing” – Ibid., p. 70.

18 “Who spies with jealous, watchful care” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 168.

19 “money-priesthood” – Ibid., p. 46.

20 “thousand million slaves” – Ibid., p. 166.

21 “packs a world of lies” – Ibid., p. 58.

22 “Of course you are perfectly right” —Orwell letter to Julian Symons, May 10, 1948, CW XIX, 3397, p. 336.

23 “silly potboilers” – Orwell, Notes for My Literary Executor, March 31, 1945, CW XVII, 2648, p. 114.

24 “a revolutionary in love with 1910” – Cyril Connolly, Horizon, September 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 199.

25 “people then had something” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell VII: Coming Up for Air (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 109. Оруэлл Дж. Глотнуть воздуха / пер. В. М. Домитеева. – М.: АСТ, 2015. 320 с.

26 “as if I’d got X-rays” – Ibid., p. 26.

27 “The world we’re going down into” – Ibid., p. 157.

28 “the things that you tell yourself ” – Ibid., p. 238.

29 “It’s a ghastly thing” – Ibid., p. 156.

30 “throw sulfuric acid” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 180.

31 “new kind of men” – Orwell, CW VII, pp. 168–69.

32 “She had not a thought” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 69.

33 “Celluloid, rubber” – Ibid., p. 24.