Orwell wrote literary criticism, fictional poetry, and polemical journalism. He is best known for his dystopian novel 1949 and his allegorical novel Animal Farm (1945), which together sold more copies than any other book by any other twentieth-century writer. His 1938 book, Homage to Catalonia, drew on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War and is widely acclaimed as his monumental essay on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second in its list of “The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.” Orwell’s works continue to influence mainstream political culture, and the term Orwellianism, describing practices of authoritarian and totalitarian rule, has entered popular culture, along with many of his other coinages, such as Big Brother, doublethink, Cold War, thoughtcrime, and thought police. Orwell suffered from tuberculosis early on, and died in 1950, aged only forty-six.