a sign of the vitality of democracy” – Orwell, “The British General Election”, Commentary, November 1945, CW XVII, 2777, p. 340.

115 “I just thought the alteration” – Orwell letter to Roger Senhouse, March 17, 1945, CW XVII, 2635, p. 90.

116 “To me this single sentence” – Warburg, p. 51.

117 “the destruction of the Soviet myth” – Orwell, Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm, March 1947, CW XIX, 3198, p. 88.

118 “It is a sad fable” – Graham Greene, Evening Standard, August 10, 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 196.

119 “a sort of fairy story” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, March 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2436, p. 126.

120 “the tops” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, January 25, 1947, CW XIX, 3163, p. 32.

121 “To say that I was horrified” – Margaret Atwood, “George Orwell: Some Personal Connections”, reprinted in Curious Pursuits, p. 333.

122 “sinister enchanter” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 17.

123 “some kind of invisible influence” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell VIII: Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 53.

124 “theoretical possibility” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 309.

125 “They all remembered” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 53.

126 “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL” – Ibid., p. 90.

127 “Are you certain” – Ibid., pp. 43–44.

128 “But you could prove nothing” – Orwell, CW IX, 38–39.

129 “Ah, that is different” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 55.

130 “Thou watchest over all” – Ibid., p. 63.

131 “Four legs good” – Ibid., p. 21.

132 “though she lacked the words” – Ibid., p. 59.

133 “the huge and simple question” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 96.

134 “Once it went sad in the middle” – Wadhams, p. 159.

135 “never liked being associated” – Coppard and Crick, p. 195.

136 In September 1941– Crick, p. 395.

137 Foreign translations– See Paul Potts in Coppard and Crick, p. 253.

138 “I have been surprised” – Orwell letter to Philip Rahv, April 9, 1946, CW XVIII, 2966, p. 231.

139 some bookshops had mistakenly racked it– See Susan Watson in Coppard and Crick, p. 220.

140 “looking more like a monkey on a stick” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 7, 1944, 2401, p. 55.

141 “I belong to the Left” – Orwell letter to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, November 15, 1945, CW XVII, 2795, p. 385.

142 Orwell had told A. J. Ayer– Wadhams, p. 168.

143 “the danger of this kind of perfection” – William Empson letter to Orwell, August 24, 1945, reprinted in Crick p. 492.

144 “the mushiest and most maudlin” – Mayhew (ed.), p. 153.

145 “to hell with it” – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, December 5, 1946, CW XVIII, 3218, p. 506.

146 “reaching the exhaustion” – Kingsley Martin, New Statesman and Nation, September 8, 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 197.

147 “hunger, hardship and disappointment” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 87. “all the seeds of evil” – Orwell, “Catastrophic Gradualism”, CW XVII, 2778, p. 343.

148 “The most encouraging fact” – Introduction to British Pamphleteers, vol. 1, edited by Orwell and Reginald Reynolds, 1948, CW XIX, 3206, p. 109.

149 “If people think” – Orwell letter to Macdonald, CW XVIII, 3218, p. 507. “In England you can’t get paper” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, p. 249.

150 A Mass Observation survey in June – Kynaston, p. 69.

151 “The mood of the country” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, p. 246.

152 “enormous economic blitz”, “Almost the only thing”, “In England, as elsewhere” – Panter-Downes, “Letter from London”, New Yorker, September 1, 1945.

153 “all too topical” – Orwell, Review of That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, Manchester Evening News, August 16, 1945, CW XVII, 2720, p. 250.

154 “This is not a moment” – Orwell, Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether, CW XVII, 2784, p. 359.

155 “the kind of world-view” – Orwell, “You and the Atom Bomb”, Tribune, October 19, 1945, CW XVII, 2770, p. 321.

156 “that the fear inspired” – Orwell, “Toward European Unity”, Partisan Review, July – August 1947, CW XIX, 3244, p. 163.

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1 “To mark the paper” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 9.

2 “wouldn’t have been so gloomy” – Quoted in Christopher Hollis, A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works (Hollis & Carter, 1956), p. 207.

3 “civil wars, bomb outrages” – Orwell, “Old George’s Almanac”, Tribune, December 28, 1945, CW XVII, 2829, p. 462.

4 “My God, Orwell is a gloomy bird!” – Coppard and Crick, p. 204.

5 “To-day it seems quite possible” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 13. Хаксли О. О дивный новый мир / пер. О. Сорока. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 352 с.

6 “Our twentieth century is the century of fear” – Albert Camus, Neither Victims nor Executioners, trans. Dwight Macdonald (World Without War Publications, 1972), p. 19.

7 “No thoughtful person” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1946, CW XVIII, 2990, p. 288.

8 “the best informed” – Michael Meyer, “Memories of George Orwell”, in Gross (ed.), p. 133.

9 “we talked of melancholy subjects” – Christopher Sykes, New Republic, December 4, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 308.

10 “We were all anti-Communist” – Malcolm Muggeridge, Like It Was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge (Collins, 1981), p. 199.

11 “an irresistible attraction” – David Cole letter to Tribune, July 27, 1945, CW XVII, 2691, p. 203.

12 “no one should be persecuted” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, January 4, 1948, CW XIX, 3329, p. 254.