67 “He couldn’t see” – Orwell, “Too Hard on Humanity”, The Listener, November 26, 1942, CW XIV, 1637, p. 161.
68 “Orwell never completely lost faith” – Observer, January 29, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 298.
69 “remarkably dreary” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.
70 “A certain smugness” – Orwell, “Review of an Unknown Land”, CW XIV, 1768, p. 254.
71 “a very remarkable prophecy” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, BBC, March 5, 1943, CW XV, 1916, p. 5.
72 “a very poor book” – Ibid., p. 6.
73 “a Socialist with the instincts” – Orwell, Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London, 1945, CW XVII, 2781, p. 355.
74 “I am first of all a white man” – Andrew Sinclair, Jack: A Biography of Jack London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978), p. 108.
75 “one of Nietzsche’s blond-beasts” – Jack London, “How I Became a Socialist”, The Comrade, March 1903.
76 “You have mismanaged the world” – Joan London, Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939), p. 308.
77 “his gladiator body” – Jack London, The Iron Heel (Everett & Co., 1908), p. 195.
78 “1984 as it might have been penned” – Earle Labor, Jack London (Twayne, 1974), p. 114.
79 “In reading it one does not” – Joan London, p. 315.
80 “one of the best statements” – Orwell, “Jack London”, Forces Educational Broadcast, Light Programme, BBC, October 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2761, p. 303.
81 “Intellectually he knew” – Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories, CW XVII, 2781, p. 354.
82 “streak of brutality” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, CW XV, p. 6.
83 “understanding of the primitive”, “better prophet” and “You might say” – Ibid., p. 7.
84 “the vision of a boot crashing down” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 396. «видение наступающего сапога», Оруэлл Дж. Лев и Единорог. Эссе, статьи, рецензии. – М.: Московская школа политических исследований, 2003. 480 с.
85 “a warning” – London, The Iron Heel, p. 4. Лондон Дж. Железная пята / пер. Р. М. Гальперина. – М.: Астрель, 2012. 320 с.
86 “The diary would be reduced to ashes” —Orwell, CW IX, p. 29.