30 “there is some lie” – Orwell, “Why I Write”, CW XVIII, 3007, p. 319. Оруэлл Дж. Почему я пи шу / пер. В. Ф. Мисюченко. 1988.
31 “It is bound to be a failure” – Ibid., p. 320.
32 “as shabby and dirty as ever” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1946, CW XIII, 2990, p. 289.
33 “miserable, hostile old bugger” – Wadhams, p. 181.
34 “They are most annoying” – Orwell letter to David Astor, October 9, 1948, CW XIX, 3467, p. 450.
35 “not worth a bomb” – Orwell letter to Tosco Fyvel, December 31, 1947, CW XIX, 3322, p. 241.
36 “I have at last started” – Orwell letter to Humphrey Slater, September 26, 1946, CW XVIII, 3084, p. 408.
37 “It just seemed depressingly lacking in hope” – Wadhams, p. 180.
38 “one of those people” – Orwell, “Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels”, CW XVIII, 3089, p. 418. Оруэлл Дж. Политика против литературы / пер. И. Левидова. 1988.
39 “One ought to be able” – Orwell, “Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali”, June 1, 1944, CW XVI, 2481, pp. 237–38.
40 “This book is on my side” – Orwell, “Writers and Leviathan”, CW XIX, 3364, p. 288. Оруэлл Дж. Писатели и Левиафан / пер. А. Шишкин. 1988.
41 “picking out a single hidden truth” – Orwell, “Politics vs Literature”, CW XVIII, 3089, p. 418. Оруэлл Дж. Политика против литературы / пер. И. Левидова. 1988.
42 “the brief Communist dictatorship” – H. G. Wells, “My Auto-Obituary”, Strand Magazine, vol. 1041, January 1943.
43 “He was so big a figure” – Orwell, “The True Pattern of H. G. Wells”, Manchester Evening News, August 14, 1946, reprinted in The Lost Orwell, p. 139.
44 “I told you so” – H. G. Wells, “Preface to the 1941 Edition”, The War in the Air (Penguin, 1941), p. 9.
45 “In the United States there is more money” – Review of Spearhead, ed. James Laughlin, Times Literary Supplement, April 17, 1948, CW XIX, 3380, p. 316.
46 “The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of our time” – Quoted in Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 44.
47 “good bad book” – Orwell, “Good Bad Books”, Tribune, November 2, 1945, CW XVII, 2780, p. 348.
48 Edmund Wilson – New Yorker, September 7, 1946.
49 “the satire deals not” – New Republic, September 2, 1946.