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Tim Mitchell
Tim Mitchell (born 1959)

biographer

  • University of Kent, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Sedition and alchemy
Skin disorders
Psoriasis at your fingertips
Psoriasis
George Woodcock
George Woodcock (1912-1995)

literary critic, poet, historian, biographer, anarchist, peace activist

  • Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The anarchist prince
Mohandas Gandhi
William Godwin
Peter Kropotkin
Thomas Merton, monk and poet
Walking through the valley
Dawn and the darkest hour
The paradox of Oscar Wilde
Beyond the blue mountains
Gabriel Dumont
Aphra Behn
Dawn and the darkest hour
Letter to the past
Faces from history
Oscar Wilde
Herbert Read
The Canadians
Wyndham Lewis in Canada
Gabriel Dumont (The Canadians)
Amor De Cosmos
Ivan Eyre
Malcolm Lowry
100 great Canadians
Ghandi
Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work
The Canadians
Thomas Merton, monk and poet
Anarchism
The crystal spirit
The Doukhobors
A Social History of Canada
Colony and confederation
Introducing Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Power to us all
The Marvellous Century
Traditionen der Freiheit
Who killed the British Empire?
The writer and politics
Peoples of the Coast
Two plays
Poets and critics
Introducing Sinclair Ross's As for me and my house
The monk and his message
The Egoist
The century thatmade us
Odysseus ever returning
Civil disobedience
Canada and the Canadians
Northern spring
The Anarchist Reader
The mountain road
Railways and society
Canadian poets, 1960-1973
Into Tibet
The walls of India
British Columbia
South Sea journey
Caves in the desert
The British in the Far East
Anarchism and Anarchists
British poetry today
Faces of India
George Woodcock's introduction to Canadian fiction
Mordecai Richler
Incas and other men
To the city of the dead
Kerala
Notes on visitations
Letter from the Khyber Pass, and other travel writing
Patrick Lane and His Works
Matt Cohen
Anarchy or chaos
Henry Walter Bates
Confederation betrayed
Moral predicament
Peoples of the coast
The benefactor
A George Woodcock reader
Taking it to the letter
Imagine the South
George Woodcock's introduction to Canadian poetry
The world of Canadian writing
Picture History of British Columbia
Orwell's message
A hundred years of revolution, 1848 and after
20th-century Fiction (Great Writers Library)
Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
The spirit wrestlers
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist of the Amazons
The centre cannot hold
Selected poems
The rejection of politics
Gabriel Dumont and the northwest rebellion
Neo-anarchism in the 1970s
The incomparable Aphra
Strange bedfellows
The meeting of time and space
Ravens and prophets
The Dry wells of India
Variations on the human theme
The sixties; writers and writing of the decade
British Columbia
No nation is a good nation
Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other poems
The Great Canadian Anecdote Contest
Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
The kestrel, and other poems of past and present
A choice of critics
Introducing Margaret Laurence's The stone angel
Powers of observation
The Hudson's Bay Company
El príncipe anarquista
New life to the land
The Orwell Tapes
Matt Cohen and his works
Patrick Lane and his works
Faces Form History
Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin)
Introducing Mordecai Richler's
Anima
Hugh MacLennan
Charles Heavysege and His Works
Into Tibet: the early British explorers
Skinned Activists Condemn the Horrors of the Fur Trade
Six poems
The island of demons
Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising
Collected poems
Selected poems of George Woodcock
The basis of communal living
A letter from George Woodcock
The Greeks in India
Malcolm Lowry
Above and below the 49th parallel
New Life to the Land
Asia, gods and cities
Thomas Merton
Alain-Fournier and the lost land
The University of British Columbia
Homes or hovels
Introducing Mordecai Richler's The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Introducing Margaret Laurence's the Stone Angel
20th Century Fiction (St.James Reference Guide to English Literature)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a Biography
The Cherry Tree on Cherry Street
The sometime sahibs
The incomparable Aphra
New life to the land
The Canadian novel in the twentieth century
Dry Wells of India
New life to the land
Anima: Or, Swann grown old
Railways and society
A choice of critics
The sixties ; writers and writing of the decade. A symposium to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Canadian literature
The Canadian Metis
Northern spring
The sixties
Selected poems of George Woodcock
Gabriel Dumont (Canadians)
Twentieth Century Fiction (Great Writers Library)
Northern spring
Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
Now
Snowscapes
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist of the Amazons
Incas and other men
Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work
A Place to stand on
British Columbia
20th century fiction
The Canadian novel in the twentieth century
The world of Canadian writing
Selected poems of George Woodcock
Is Big Brother Still Watching
The white island
Robert Payne
Robert Payne (1911-1983)

historian, biographer

  • University of Liverpool, University of Cape Town

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The three worlds of Albert Schweitzer
The great man
Portrait of a revolutionary
Dostoyevsky
By me, William Shakespeare
The life and death of Trotsky
The great Garbo
The life and death of Lenin
By me, William Shakespeare
The holy fire
A portrait of Andre Malraux
The life and death of Lenin
The Fathers of the Western Church
A portrait of André Malraux
Schweitzer
The holy fire; the story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church / Robert Payne
The holy fire; the story of the Fathers of the Eastern Church
Leonardo
The holy fire
The Fathers of the Western Church
The gold of Troy
The barbarian and the geisha
The corrupt society
Ancient Rome
Ivan the Terrible
A rage for China
Eyewitness
The dream and the tomb
The white pony
The three worlds of Boris Pasternak
The rise and fall of Stalin
Chinese diaries, 1941-1946
Chiang Kai-shek
The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi
The Horizon book of ancient Rome
The terrorists: the story of the forerunners of Stalin
Mexico City
The life and death of Adolf Hitler
The island
Alexander the god
Mao Tse-tung
The Marshall story
A house in Peking
Ancient Greece
Chungking diary
The gold of Troy
The fortress
China awake
Forever China
The splendor of Greece
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Hubris
The making of the Christian world
The great Mogul
The splendour of Greece
Marx
The dream and the tomb
The revolt of Asia
Horizon ancient Rome
Mao Tsê-tung, ruler of Red China
Chinese diaries, 1941-1946
The life and death of Adolph Hitler
The young emperor
The Shepherd
The canal builders
The Lord comes
Mao Tse-tung
The tortured and the damned
The rise and fall of Stalin
Lost treasures of the Mediterranean world
The song of the peasant
Singapore river
The yellow robe
The Chieftain
Chiang Kai-shek
A portrait of André Malraux ...
Portrait of a revolutionary
The great god Pan
The three worlds of Boris Pasternak
General Marshall
The great Charlie
The splendor of France
Zero
The splendor of the Holy Land--Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon
Readers Digest Condensed Books
The world of art
Marx
The Christian centuries from Christ to Dante
Lawrence of Arabia
Mao Tse-tung, ruler of red China
Forever China
The white pony
Mao Tse-tung, ruler of Red China
The Lord Jesus
The Civil War in Spain
Gershwin
Mao Tsé-tung, un revolucionario
The emperor
Journey to Persia
The Great Charlie
The Christian centuries
The Splendour of Israel
The isles of Greece
General Marshall
André Malraux
André Malraux
The great Charlie / Robert Payne ; with a foreword by G.W. Stonier
Journey to Red China
The great god Pan
Caravaggio
The holy sword
Contemporary Chinese poetry
Andre Malraux
Gershwin
Mao Tsé Toung
Report on America
Mao Tŝe-tung, ruler of Red China
The triumph of the Greeks
Caravaggio
The splendour of Greece
China awake
The splendor of Israel
The roaring boys
The holy fire
The splendor of Greece
The revolt of Asia
Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Zero
The Christian centuries
Fabulous America
The Lord comes
The White Rajahs of Sarawak
The granite island, and other poems
The mountains and the stars
Im Sturm des Frühlings
Concord Bridge
The white rajahs of Sarawak
The Roman triumph
The splendours of Asia
The blue nigger and other stories
The terrorists
O western wind
The Lord Jesus
Red storm over Asia
The shepherd
The splendour of France
The rose tree
The deluge
The Deluge, a novel
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Liefde en vrede
The royal players
Massacre
Red jade
Blood royal
The mountains and the stars
The splendour of Israel
The Granite island
The civil war in Spain, l936-1939
The Roman triumph
The splendor of Persia
The White pony
The Christian centuries from Christ to Dante
Maharajah
The bear coughs at the North Pole
The Horizon book of ancient Rome
Brave Harvest
David and Anna
The white rajahs of Sarawak
The wanton nymph
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Journey to Red China
The war in the marshes
Torrents of spring
The Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939
Peking elegies
The revolt of Asia
Songs
The white pony
The Chinese soldier, and other stories
The Rose tree
אלכסנדר האל
Love and peace
Mao Tsê-tung, ruler of Red China
André Malraux
Red Lion Inn
The three worlds of Boris Pasternak
The Shepherd
The tortured and the damned
The mountains and the stars
The tormentors
The holy sword
Kazimierz Moczarski
Kazimierz Moczarski (1907-1975)

journalist, autobiographer, resistance fighter, biographer, jurist

  • Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

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Rozmowy z katem
Śiḥot ʻim talyan
Alkohol w kulturze i obyczaju
Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz
Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz (born 1942)

politician, activist, theologian, nutritionist, journalist, biographer

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Wir hatten ein barbarisches, schönes Leben
Jeder hat sein Leben ganz zu leben
Muss ein Christ Sozialist sein?
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862)

barrister, biographer

  • Durham School, University of Oxford

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The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley at Oxford
The life of Percy Bysshe Shelly
The Athenians
Two hundred and nine days
After Shelley
The Athenians, being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others
After Shelley
The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Two hundred and nine days, or, The journal of a traveller on the continent
Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff
Yves Buin
Yves Buin (born 1938)

biographer, music critic, psychiatrist

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Thelonious Monk
Barney Wilen
Paul Nizan
Céline
Que peut la littérature
Maël
L' oeuvre européenne de Reich
Jack Kerouac
Épistrophy
Mae̤l
Remarques d'un citoyen ordinaire
Psychiatries. L'utopie, le déclin
Les alephs
Le psychonaute
Essai d'harméneutique sexuelle
Jedda blue
Histoire de Smagg, récit
Cent dixième rue à l'est
Les alephs ; Diégopolis ; La retraite de Russie
Histoire de Smagg
110e rue à l'est; ou, La troisième ombre de Saül Chaïm
La terre d'Arnhem
Borggi
La nuit verticale
La psychiatrie mystifiée
L'asmara
Les Environs de minuit
Déraison, desir
Que peut la littérature?
Tamara Kataeva
Tamara Kataeva

biographer

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Anti-Akhmatova
Otmena rabstva
Drugoĭ Pasternak
Anti-Akhmatova
Pushkin