George Orwell is the pseudonym or pen name of , a British novelist and . 2. The author’s first novel is , which is based on his experience in Burma. 3. Homage to Catalonia (1938) is an account of the eight months he spent fighting in , which marked the maturing of his views and his increasing dissatisfaction with left wing orthodoxy. 4. His early novels are highly . 5. All of Orwell’s works, are concerned with the conditions of his time, notably with the problem of . 6. In 1945 he published his most successful book, , a satirical fantasy attacking communism as practiced in the Soviet Union. It is upon this book that Orwell’s reputation as an anticommunist writer is based. 7. is an elaborate satire on modern politics, a prophetic novel describing the dehumanization of man in a mechanistic, totalitarian ( 极权主义的 ) world. 8. George Orwell is considered as a master of a superb terse, prose style.