George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903–50), was an English writer. Several of his works, like Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and Homage to Catalonia (1938), are autobiographical and sociopolitical. Animal Farm (1946) is a fable about the failure of communism, and his prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) portrays a totalitarian world. His literary essays are favorably regarded.

• Politics and the English Language
• Memorable Quotations from Aldous Huxley
• Anarchist Morality
• Essays (Penguin Modern Classics)
• The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)