“The nation as a whole”—Quoted in Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” Slate, October 28, 2013.
“The evident connection”—Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars, CW XII, 702, p. 280.
“the perfect demonstration”—Quoted in Howard Koch, The Panic Broadcast: Portrait of an Event (Little, Brown & Company, 1970), p. 93.
“You are not going out of your mind”—Patrick Hamilton, Gas Light (Constable & Company, Ltd., 1939), p. 42.
“a lunatic asylum”—Orwell, CW VI, p. 152.
“mentally deranged”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 258.
“Am I really mad?”—Iulia de Beausobre, The Woman Who Could Not Die (Chatto & Windus, 1938), p. 85.
“the idea that I’ve got to abandon them”—Orwell letter to Jack Common, September 29, 1938, CW XI, 489, p. 212.
“the vulgar lie”—Orwell, Review of The Novel To-Day by Philip Henderson, New English Weekly, December 31, 1936, in CW IX, 342, p. 534.
“does not seem to be so very different”—Orwell, Review of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, New English Weekly, June 9, 1938, in CW XI, 451, pp. 160–61.
“Everything within the state”—Benito Mussolini speech at La Scala, Milan, October 28, 1925.
“Brown Bolshevism”—Franz Borkenau, The Totalitarian Enemy (Faber & Faber, 1940), p. 13.
“simply the bludgeon”—John Strachey, The Coming Struggle for Power (Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1932), p. 266.
“The two regimes”—Orwell, Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Time and Tide, May 4, 1940, CW XII, 620, p. 159.
“The sin of nearly all leftwingers”—Orwell, “Arthur Koestler,” CW XVI, 2548, p. 394.
“This book is subtitled”—Orwell, Review of Franco’s Rule (anonymous), New English Weekly, June 23, 1938, in CW XI, 456, p. 167.
“Groping along darkened streets”—Muggeridge, pp. 316–17.
“bitched buggered and bewildered”—Ethel Mannin letter to Orwell, October 30, 1939, in CW XI, 575, p. 413.
“It taught me two things”—Orwell, “My Country Right or Left,” CW XII, 694, p. 271.
“objectively pro-Fascist”—George Woodcock et al., “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy,” Partisan Review, September-October 1942, CW XIII, 1270, p. 396.
“dishonest”—“As I Please,” December 8, 1944, CW XVI, 2590, p. 495.
“The intellectuals who are at present”—Orwell letter to Victor Gollancz, January 8, 1940, CW XII, 583, p. 5.
“cold war”—Orwell, Review of Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler, December 9, 1943, CW XVI, 2389, p. 19.
“bored, bewildered”—Orwell, Review of War Begins at Home, ed. Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge, Time and Tide, March 2, 1940, CW XII, 594, p. 17.
“this bloody war”—Orwell letter to Geoffrey Gorer, January 10, 1940, CW XII, 585, p. 6.
“I find that anything outrageously strange”—Orwell, CW V, pp. 100–101.
“brilliant and depressing”—Orwell, “Notes on the Way,” Time and Tide, April 6, 1940, CW XII, 604, p. 124.
“He is looking only on the black side”—Orwell, Review of The Thirties by Malcolm Muggeridge, New English Weekly, April 25, 1940, CW XII, 615, p. 150.
“With this craving for facts”—Muggeridge, p. 262.
“nihilistic quietism”—Orwell, “Words and Henry Miller,” Tribune, February 22, 1946, CW XVIII, 2906, p. 118.
“labels, slogans” and “Good novels”—Orwell, “Inside the Whale,” CW XII, 600, p. 105.
“moving into an age”—Ibid., p. 110.
“the literary history”—Ibid., p. 105.
“always on the side of the underdog”—Orwell, “Charles Dickens,” CW XII, 597, p. 55.
“It is the face of a man”—Ibid., p. 56.
“I should doubt whether”—Ibid., p. 47.
“To be a lover of Dickens”—The Dickensian, vol. 36, no. 256, September 1, 1940, reprinted in CW XII, 627, p. 167.
For the next four years—see Wadhams, p. 130.
“Everything is disintegrating”—Orwell, War-time Diary, June 10, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 182.
“We shall at any rate”—Orwell letter to James Laughlin, July 16, 1940, CW XII, 659, p. 219.
“ARM THE PEOPLE”—Orwell letter to the editor, Time and Tide, June 22, 1940, CW XII, 642, p. 193.
“an Ironside”—Warburg, p. 36.
“A Counter-Revolutionary Gangster Passes”—Daily Worker, August 23, 1940.
“How will the Russian state”—Orwell, War-time Diary, August 23, 1940, CW XII, 677, p. 241.
“cultural blue-prints”—Tribune, August 16, 1940, CW XII, 655, p. 213.
“I don’t think anyone need fear”—Ibid., p. 214.
“Reality has outdone fiction”—H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (Gollancz, 1934), p. 501.
“I could imagine an English Fascism” and “The novel does not set out”—Quoted in Andy Croft, Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s (Lawrence & Wishart, 1990), p. 230.
“a horrible brainless empire”—Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 117.
“year of the Lord Hitler 720”—Murray Constantine, Swastika Night (Gollancz, 2016), p. 11.
“We can create nothing”—Ibid., p. 121.
“would have no vitality”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 281.
“a little soft dark fat smiling thing”—Constantine, p. 100.
“There is not the whole width of the Empire”—Ibid., p. 80.
“remarkable in its insight”—Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom by Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Time and Tide, August 24, 1940, CW XII, 678, p. 243.
“Action. Isolation. Order.”—Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Take Back Your Freedom (Jonathan Cape, 1939), p. 27.
“a more gentlemanly Hitler”—Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.
“We must have emotion”—Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 58.
“Many who had found thinking”—Muggeridge, p. 241.
“prisoner of power”—Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.
“Is this true”—Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 71.
“felt enormously at home”—Cyril Connolly, The Evening Colonnade (David Bruce & Watson, 1973), p. 383.
“They’ll behave like this” and “they preserved the ordinary pattern”—Orwell, “London Letter,” Partisan Review, Summer 1945, CW XVII, 2672, p. 164.
“Please sir”—Orwell, War-time Diary, September 21, 1940, CW XII, 691, p. 267.
“Of course we were painting”—Inez Holden, It Was Different at the Time (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1943), p. 69.
“How much rubbish”—Orwell, War-time Diary, June 14, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 184.
“Apparently nothing”—Orwell, War-time Diary, June 3, 1940, CW XII, 632, p. 176.
“We cannot beat Hitler”—Orwell, “Our Opportunity,” The Left News, no. 55, January 1941, CW XII, 737, p. 346.
“written in simple language”—Searchlight Books advertisement, quoted in Crick, p. 402.
“a land of snobbery and privilege”—Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Searchlight Books, 1941), CW XII, 763, p. 400.
“bound together”—Ibid., p. 401.
“the privateness of English life”—Ibid., p. 394.
“the only really positive”—Wadhams, p. 120.
“George has written a little book”—Eileen Blair letter to Norah Myles, December 5, 1940, The Lost Orwell, p. 80.
“We are in a strange period of history”—Orwell, “The Home Guard and You,” Tribune, December 20, 1940, CW XII, 725, p. 311.
“soft-boiled intellectuals”—Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 427.
“Here was somebody”—Arena: George Orwell.
“The revolution in England”—Bew, p. 256.
“a querulous man who was ailing”—Fyvel, p. 121.
> CHAPTER 4: WELLS-WORLD
“In the early twentieth century”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 196.
“I doubt whether”—Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State,” Horizon, August 1941, CW XII, 837, p. 539.
“fearful, moral, morbid questions”—Arena: George Orwell.
“he might write”—Jacintha Buddicom, Eric and Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell (Leslie Frewin, 1974), p. 39.
Orwell’s very first published story—“A Peep into the Future,” Election Times, no. 4, June 3, 1918, CW X, 32, pp. 48–50.
“so disappointed”—Buddicom, p. 15.
“I have to overwork”—H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells in Love (Faber & Faber, 1984), pp. 34–35.
“the Man Who Invented Tomorrow”—Norman and Jeannie Mackenzie, The Time Traveller: The Life of H. G. Wells (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), p. 400.
“this wonderful man”—Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State,” CW XII, 837, p. 540.
“a sort of parricide”—Ibid., p. 539.
“The Socialist world”—Orwell, CW V, p. 176.
“the ‘progressives’ ”—Orwell, “Inside the Whale,” CW XII, 600, p. 106.
“lies in that regard”—H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Penguin, 2005), p. 13.
“vindictive resentment”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 104.
“nothing more than”—Ibid., p. 102.
“I had done practically everything”—Ibid., p. 288.
“a match that man has just got alight”—Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 87.
“H. G. Wells is a man of genius”—Quoted in ibid., p. 108.
“When Wells in his lamp-lit room”—James Gleick, Time Travel: A History (4th Estate, 2017), p. 5.
“the first well-executed”—Mark Hillegas, The Future As Nightmare: HG Wells and the Anti-utopians (Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 34.
“It’s rather pleasant”—Wells letter to Sarah Wells, October 13, 1895.
“It did not take us long”—Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 116.
“I make use of physics”—Quoted in ibid., p. 117.
“world of cooling stars”—Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells, Manchester Evening News, November 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2784, p. 360.
“I had realised”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 516.
“the philosopher who masquerades”—Quoted in Sherborne, p. 108.
“able-bodied, clean-minded men”—H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 157.
“Everyone who has ever read”—Orwell, Review of The Iron Heel by Jack London, etc., CW XII, 655, p. 211.
“gigantic glass hive”—H. G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 71.
“our contemporary world”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 645.
“idiotic slang”—Wells, Sleeper, p. 190.
“to print permanent memories”—Ibid., p. 154.
“nightmare of capitalism triumphant”—Ibid., p. 8.
“It suffers from vast contradictions”—Orwell, CW V, p. 188.
“worn-out dreams”—Wells, Sleeper, p. 202.
“monstrous crowds”—Ibid., p. 79.
“the impulse of passionate inadequacy”—Ibid., p. 212.
“The hope of mankind”—Ibid., p. 170.
“For this year”—Quoted in Sherborne, p. 153.
“The old local order”—Wells, Utopia, p. 33.
“the keystone”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 643.
“sober forecasting”—Ibid., p. 646.
“designed to undermine”—Quoted in Sherborne, p. 147.
“Generally the fault”—Quoted in David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 100.
“Well, the world is a world”—H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1902), p. 317.
“one of the most remarkable men alive”—Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 162.
“an explorer of a new world”—Quoted in ibid., p. 170.
“Heaven defend us”—Quoted in Sherborne, p. 219.
“voluntary noblemen”—Wells, Utopia, p. 86.
“imaginary laws”—Ibid., p. 23.
“strange and inhuman”—Ibid., p. 14.
“like a well-oiled engine”—Ibid., p. 117.
“There will be many Utopias”—Ibid., p. 245.
“We all want to abolish”—Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?,” CW XVI, 2397, pp. 39–40.
“struggle, danger and death”—Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 118.
“The difference between us”—Quoted in Smith, p. 167.
“besetting sin”—Attlee, p. 138.
“counterblast to one of the heavens”—E. M. Forster, The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), pp. 7–8.
“Science, instead of freeing man”—Quoted in P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (1879–1970) (Secker & Warburg, 1979), p. 161.
“several thousand”—Forster, p. 145.
“What was the good”—Ibid., p. 156.
“Progress had come to mean”—Ibid., p. 186.
“terrestrial facts” and “absolutely colourless”—Ibid., p. 183.
“confused, tedious”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 660.
“He has neither the patience”—Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 206.
“plan for the reconstruction”—H. G. Wells, Socialism and the Family (A. C. Fifield, 1906), p. 6.
“Many writers, perhaps most”—Orwell, “As I Please,” Tribune, December 6, 1946, CW XVIII, 3131, p. 511.
“Wells watered down”—Orwell letter to Julian Symons, CW XIX, 3397, p. 336.
“The return to complete sanity”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 668.
“a wave of sanity”—Ibid., p. 666.
“he suffers from a messianic delusion”—H. L. Mencken, “The Late Mr. Wells,” in Prejudices: First Series (Jonathan Cape, 1921), p. 28.
“there was, among the young”—Orwell, CW V, p. 129.
“My boom is over”—Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 319.
“from nebula to the Third International”—Quoted in ibid., p. 327.
“amazing little man” and “very refreshing”—H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows (Hodder & Stoughton, 1920), p. 138.
“What a narrow petty bourgeois!”—Quoted in Sherborne, p. 259.
“never desist”—H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods (Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1923), p. 289.
“fear-haunted world”—H. G. Wells, The Dream (Jonathan Cape, 1924), p. 152.
“a huge glittering vehicle”—Orwell, CW V, p. 193.
“a memorable assault”—Ibid., p. 189.
“started out as a parody”—Paris Review, no. 23, Spring 1960.
“I feel that the nightmare”—Aldous Huxley letter to George Orwell, October 21, 1949, in Grover Smith (ed.), Letters of Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus, 1969), p. 605.
“I am writing a novel”—Aldous Huxley letter to Kethevan Roberts, May 18, 1931, ibid., p. 348.
“a rather horrid, vulgar little man”—Aldous Huxley letter to Robert Nichols, January 18, 1927, ibid., p. 281.
“Men no longer amuse themselves”—“Spinoza’s Worm” in Do What You Will (Chatto & Windus, 1929), quoted in Hillegas, p. 115.
“Utopias appear much more realisable”—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Chatto & Windus, 1984), p. 3. Original passage is in French.
“just to know the worst”—Quoted in Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Vintage, 2007), p. xx.
“City of Dreadful Joy”—Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate (Chatto & Windus, 1926), p. 267.
“It is all movement and noise”—Ibid., p. 284.
“What’s the point of truth”—Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 201.
“a taste for words”—Quoted in
Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography: Volume One: 1894–1939 (Chatto & Windus, 1973), p. 92.
“There is no power-hunger”—Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness,” Tribune, January 4, 1946, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 14.
“the quite natural interaction”—Orwell, CW V, p. 83.
“had stayed human”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 172.
“The birds sang”—Ibid., p. 230.
“If there is hope”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 72.
“Vague New World”—Quoted in Bew, p. 236.
“a Brave New World”—Muggeridge, p. 24.
“some kind of Aldous Huxley Brave New World”—Orwell, CW IV, p. 97.
“degenerate art”—Cyril Connolly, “Year Nine,” collected in The Condemned Playground, p. 158.
“I fear, wasn’t best pleased with it”—Aldous Huxley letter to Harold Raymond, March 19, 1932, Grover Smith, p. 359.
“a great disappointment”—Quoted in Peter Edgerly Firchow, The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Associated University Presses, 1984), p. 135.
“Bible of the impotent genteel”—Quoted in ibid., p. 59.
“one of the most brilliant”—H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (Gollancz, 2017), p. 354.
“an ultra-left revolutionary”—Mackenzie, p. 394.
“the most effective transmitting instrument”—Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 797.
“never met a man”—Ibid., p. 806.
“Come and see us again”—Ibid., p. 819.
“Russia had let me down”—Mackenzie, p. 381.
“a disgruntled inspector-general”—Ibid., p. 403.
“It gives in one eddying concentration”—New York Times Magazine, April 17, 1927.
“decaying fragments”—Ibid.
“a mess of a film”—Mackenzie, p. 391.
“every scientific advance”—Orwell, Reply to J. F. Horrabin, Tribune, May 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2467, p. 186.
“It never occurred to Mr. Wells”—Orwell, Review of Film Stories by H. G. Wells, Tribune, June 21, 1940, CW XII, 640, p. 191.
“all-round trustification”—Orwell letter to Brenda Salkeld, June 1933, CW X, 176, p. 317.
“partly because”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 197.
“The failure of mankind”—Kingsley Martin, Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography 1931–45 (Hutchinson & Co., 1968), p. 107.
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