The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, books, and fiction written by the British writer Eric

Arthur Blair, pen name George Orwell (19031950). Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, whom British newsweekly The Economist in 2008 declared "perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture." His non-fiction cultural and political criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but Orwell also wrote in several genres of fictional literature. Orwell is best remembered for his political commentary as a left-wing anti-totalitarianas he explained in the 1946 essay "Why I Write", "every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." To that end, Orwell used his fiction writing as well as his journalism to defend his political convictions. He first achieved widespread acclaim with his fictional novella Animal Farm and cemented his place in history as a novelist with the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four shortly before his death. While fiction accounts for a small fraction of his total output, these two novels are his best-selling works, having sold almost fifty million copies in sixty-two languages by 2007more than any other pair of books by a twentieth-century author. Orwell wrote non-fictionincluding book reviews, editorials, and investigative journalismfor a variety of British periodicals. In his lifetime, he published hundreds of articles including several regular columns in British newsweeklies related to literary and cultural criticism as well as his explicitly political writing. In addition, he wrote booklength investigations of poverty in Britain in the form of Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier and one of the first retrospectives on the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia. Only two compilations of Orwell's body of work were published in his lifetime, but since his death, over a dozen collected editions have been compiled. Two attempts have been made to comprehensively collect the entirety of his miscellany: 1968's Complete Essays, Journalism and Letters constituted four volumes which were co-edited by Ian Angus and Orwell's widow Sonia Brownell and Peter Davison's 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter also included a 2007 addendum entitled The Lost Orwell. The impact of Orwell's large corpus is manifested in additions to the Western canon such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, its subjection to continued public notice and scholarly analyses, and the changes to vernacular English it has effected notably the adoption of "Orwellian" as a description of totalitarian societies.