20 The Secker & Warburg hardback– for sales figures see Warburg, pp. 114–115.
21 “Kipling is the only English writer” – Orwell, “Rudyard Kipling”, Horizon, February 1942, CW XIII, 948, p. 157.
22 “Some of the words he coined” – Nigel Kneale, “The Last Rebel of Airstrip One”, Radio Times, December 10, 1954.
23 “[Flair] is a leap into the Orwellian future” – Mary McCarthy, “Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue”, July-August 1950, reprinted in On the Contrary (Heinemann, 1962), p. 187.
24 “what the late George Orwell” – Hansard, HC Deb, November 2, 1950, vol. 480, col. 353.
25 “a very remarkable book” – Quoted in Taylor, p. 419.
26 “I thought it was a term of affection” – Hansard, HC Deb, June 18, 1956, vol. 554, col. 1026.
27 “the book written by the late Mr. George Orwell” – Hansard, HL, February 7, 1951, vol. 170, col. 216.
28 “Orwell was really” – Spender, World Review, June 1950.
29 “the man who tells the truth” – Lionel Trilling, “George Orwell and the Politics of Truth”, reprinted in Williams (ed.), p. 79.
30 “It is chiefly for the sake” – Arendt, p. 601.
31 “In the past every tyranny” – Orwell, Review of Russia Under Soviet Rule by N. de Basily, New English Weekly, January 12, 1939, CW XI, 524, p. 317.
32 “distorted the meaning of epithets” – Crossman (ed.), p. 261.
33 “Dickens is one of those writers” – “Charles Dickens”, CW XII, 597, p. 47.
34 “probably had more to do” – Hansard, HC Deb July 21, 1960, vol. 627, col. 770.
35 “no slander is too gross” – A. L. Morton, The English Utopia (Lawrence & Wishart, Ltd., 1952), p. 212.
36 “realisation of Utopia” – Ibid., p. 213.
37 “shrieking into the arms” – Marxist Quarterly, January 1956, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 290.
38 “Marxist English, or Pamphletese” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, March 17, 1944, CW XVI, 2435, p. 124.
39 “a Freudian sublimation– Deutscher in Williams (ed.), p. 130.