90 “impossible and undesirable” – Orwell, “Writers and Leviathan”, CW XIX, 3364, p. 292. Оруэлл Дж. Писатели и Левиафан / пер. А. Шишкин. 1988.
91 “to push the question” – Ibid., p. 291.
92 “Conclusion: must engage” – Orwell, Preparatory notes for “Writers and Leviathan”, 1948, CW XIX, 3365, p. 294.
93 “Gissing’s novels” – Preparatory notes for “George Gissing”, 1948, CW XIX, 3407, p. 353.
94 “a chronicler of vulgarity” – Orwell, “George Gissing”, May – June 1948(?), CW XIX, 3406, p. 352.
95 “a world of force and fraud” – Orwell, “Such, Such Were the Joys”, CW XIX, 3409, p. 370. Оруэлл Дж. Славно, славно мы резвились / пер. В. М. Домитеева, Н. А. Анастасьев, Н. Эристави. – М.: АСТ, 2020. 320 с.
96 “irrational terrors” – Ibid., p. 383. «иррациональные ужасы», там же
97 “exactly like a fat” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 223.
98 “It was possible, therefore” – “Such, Such Were the Joys”, CW XIX, 3409 p. 359. Оруэлл Дж. Славно, славно мы резвились / пер. В. М. Домитеева, Н. А. Анастасьев, Н. Эристави. – М.: АСТ, 2020. 320 с.
99 “Whether he knew it or not” – New Yorker, January 28, 1956, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 78.
100 “totalitarians” – Hilary Spurling, The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (Penguin, 2003), p. 68.
101 “What surprised me mostly” – Interview transcript from Arena: George Orwell.
102 “a book doesn’t exist” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, January 2, 1948, CW XIX, 3325, p. 249.
103 “It was a cold, blowy day” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 3.
104 “spontaneous demonstrations” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 24.
105 “voluntary subscriptions” – Ibid., p. 59.
106 “Christian Pacifists” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 37.
107 “Thus, the Party rejects” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 225.
108 “a deliberate and sadistic” and “worth a cool million” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on Nineteen Eighty-Four, December 13, 1948, CW XIX, 3505, p. 480.
109 “slightly underfed” – New York Times, January 5, 1948, quoted in Bew, p. 451.