i mean, his first wife, eileen o'shaughnessy, becomes eileen o'shaughnessy. blair and his second wife takes the last name. but that is not his legal surname. it's a nom de plume. what did he write that first novel and how many novels did he write over the course of his writing career? so he's write seven books, length novels and nonfiction, as well as countless newspaper and magazine articles. over the course of his career. he starts his first novel, which burmese days. it's not first novel he publishes, but it's the first one he writes in the 1920s, while he's serving as a police officer in burma. and the first book that he publishes is down out in paris, in london, in the early 1930s. and then he has a quick succession of novels and nonfiction works before the two that become commercial successful. first, animal farm in 1945 and then in 1984, which is published in 1949. we mentioned that you're a professor at american university. you teach a class on orwell. the students who to your class, what do they know about? george orwell. when they enter your class?