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.