class="sup">87 “Reality has outdone fiction” – H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (Gollancz, 1934), p. 501.

88 “I could imagine an English Fascism” and “The novel does not set out” – Quoted in Andy Croft, Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s (Lawrence & Wishart, 1990), p. 230.

89 “a horrible brainless empire” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 117.

90 “year of the Lord Hitler 720” – Murray Constantine, Swastika Night (Gollancz, 2016), p. 11.

91 “We can create nothing” – Ibid., p. 121.

92 “would have no vitality” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 281.

93 “a little soft dark fat smiling thing” – Constantine, p. 100.

94 “There is not the whole width of the Empire” – Ibid., p. 80.

95 “remarkable in its insight” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom by Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Time and Tide, August 24, 1940, CW XII, 678, p. 243.

96 “Action. Isolation. Order.” – Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Take Back Your Freedom (Jonathan Cape, 1939), p. 27.

97 “a more gentlemanly Hitler” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.

98 “We must have emotion” – Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 58.

99 “Many who had found thinking” – Muggeridge, p. 241.

100 “prisoner of power” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.

101 “Is this true” – Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 71.

102 “felt enormously at home” – Cyril Connolly, The Evening Colonnade (David Bruce & Watson, 1973), p. 383.

103 “They’ll behave like this” and “they preserved the ordinary pattern” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1945, CW XVII, 2672, p. 164.

104 “Please sir” – Orwell, War-time Diary, September 21, 1940, CW XII, 691, p. 267.

105 “Of course we were painting” – Inez Holden, It Was Different at the Time (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1943), p. 69.

106 “How much rubbish” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 14, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 184.

107 “Apparently nothing” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 3, 1940, CW XII, 632, p. 176.

108 “We cannot beat Hitler” – Orwell, “Our Opportunity”, The Left News, no. 55, January 1941, CW XII, 737, p. 346.

109 “written in simple language” – Searchlight Books advertisement, quoted in Crick, p. 402.

110 “a land of snobbery and privilege” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Searchlight Books, 1941), CW XII, 763, p. 400. ОруэллДж. Лев и Единорог. Эссе, статьи, рецензии. М.: Московская школа политических исследований, 2003. – 480 с.

111 “bound together” – Ibid., p. 401.

112 “the privateness of English life” – Ibid., p. 394.

113 “the only really positive” – Wadhams, p. 120.

114 “George has written a little book” – Eileen Blair letter to Norah Myles, December 5, 1940, The Lost Orwell, p. 80.

115 “We are in a strange period of history” – Orwell, “The Home Guard and You”, Tribune, December 20, 1940, CW XII, 725, p. 311.

116 “soft-boiled intellectuals” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 427.

117 “Here was somebody” – Arena: George Orwell.

118 “The revolution in England” – Bew, p. 256.

119 “a querulous man who was ailing” – Fyvel, p. 121.

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1 “In the early twentieth century” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 196.

2 “I doubt whether” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, Horizon, August 1941, CW XII, 837, p. 539.

3 “fearful, moral, morbid questions” – Arena: George Orwell.

4 “he might write” – Jacintha Buddicom, Eric and Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell (Leslie Frewin, 1974), p. 39.

5 Orwell’s very first published story– “A Peep into the Future”, Election Times, no. 4, June 3, 1918, CW X, 32, pp. 48–50.

6 “so disappointed” – Buddicom, p. 15.

7 “I have to overwork” – H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells in Love (Faber & Faber, 1984), pp. 34–35.

8 “the Man Who Invented Tomorrow” – Norman and Jeannie Mackenzie, The Time Traveller: The Life of H. G. Wells (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), p. 400.

9 “this wonderful man” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, CW XII, 837, p. 540. Оруэлл Дж. «1984 и эссе разных лет» / пер. А. Зверева. – М.: Прогресс, 1989.

10 “a sort of parricide” – Ibid., p. 539.

11 “The Socialist world” – Orwell, CW V, p. 176.

12 “the ‘progressives’ ” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 106.

13 “lies in that regard” – H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Penguin, 2005), p. 13.

14 “vindictive resentment” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 104.

15 “nothing more than” – Ibid., p. 102.

16 “I had done practically everything” – Ibid., p. 288.

17 “a match that man has just got alight” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 87.

18 “H. G. Wells is a man of genius” – Quoted in ibid., p. 108.

19 “When Wells in his lamp-lit room” – James Gleick, Time Travel: A History (4th Estate, 2017), p. 5.

20 “the first well-executed” – Mark Hillegas, The Future As Nightmare: HG Wells and the Anti-utopians (Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 34.

21 “It’s rather pleasant” – Wells letter to Sarah Wells, October 13, 1895.

22 “It did not take us long” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 116.

23 “I make use of physics” – Quoted in ibid., p. 117.

24 “world of cooling stars” – Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells, Manchester Evening News, November 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2784, p. 360.

25 “I had realised” – Wells, Experiment