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The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell. Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, whom the 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-totalitarian. As he explained in the essay "Why I Write" (1946), "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 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 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 2007—more than any other pair of books by a twentieth-century author. Orwell wrote non-fiction—including book reviews, editorials, and investigative journalism—for 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 book-length 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''. Between 1941 and 1946 he also wrote fifteen "London Letters" for the American political and literary quarterly ''Partisan Review'', the first of which appeared in the issue dated March–April 1941. Only two compilations of Orwell's body of work were published in his lifetime, but since his death over a dozen collected editions have appeared. Two attempts have been made at comprehensive collections: ''Complete Essays, Journalism and Letters'' in four volumes (1968–70), co-edited by Ian Angus and Orwell's widow Sonia Brownell; and ''The Complete Works of George Orwell'', in 20 volumes, edited by Peter Davison, which began publication in the mid-1980s. The latter includes an addendum, ''The Lost Orwell'' (2007). 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. ==Books: non-fiction and novels== Orwell wrote six novels: ''Burmese Days'', ''A Clergyman's Daughter'', ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'', ''Coming Up for Air'', ''Animal Farm'' and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. Most of these were semi-autobiographical. ''Burmese Days'' was inspired by his period working as an imperial policeman and is fictionalized; ''A Clergyman's Daughter'' follows a young woman who passes out from overwork and wakes up an amnesiac, forced to wander the countryside as she finds herself, eventually losing her belief in God, despite being the daughter of a clergyman. In addition to his novels Orwell also wrote three non-fiction books. ''Down and Out in Paris and London'' records his experiences tramping and teaching in those two cities. ''The Road to Wigan Pier'' is initially a study of poverty in the North of England, but ends with an extended autobiographical essay describing some of Orwell's experiences with poverty. ''Homage to Catalonia'' recounts his experiences as a volunteer fighting fascism with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification in anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. *''Down and Out in Paris and London'' (9 January 1933, Victor Gollancz Ltd) *''Burmese Days'' (October 1934, Harper & Brothers) *''A Clergyman's Daughter'' (11 March 1935, Victor Gollancz Ltd) *''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'' (20 April 1936, Victor Gollancz Ltd) *''The Road to Wigan Pier'' (February 1937, Left Book Club edition; 8 March 1937 Victor Gollancz Ltd edition for the general public) *''Homage to Catalonia'' (25 April 1938, Secker and Warburg) *''Coming Up for Air'' (12 June 1939, Victor Gollancz Ltd) *''Animal Farm'' (17 August 1945, Secker and Warburg) *''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (8 June 1949, Secker and Warburg) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Orwell bibliography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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