“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.

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.

Часть II

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1 “If that is what the world is going to