The correct answer is C. George Orwell.
George Orwell was a British novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, biting social criticism, and outspoken opposition to totalitarianism. Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which describes a story taking place in an imagined future in which the world is dominated by three totalitarian superstates.
J. M. Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best known for his children’s fantasy novel Peter Pan (1904). Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet.