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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
Edmond Privat
Edmond Privat (1889-1962)

peace activist, journalist, poet, Esperantist, historian, playwright, esperantologist

  • University of Geneva

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The life of Zamenhof
Vivo de Zamenhof
Esperanto in fifty lessons
Esperanto at a glance, the international language
L'insurrection polonaise de dix-huit-cent trente et ses echos a l'Occident
Bon voisinage
Vie de Gandhi
Historio de la lingvo esperanto ..
The clash of loyalties
Trois expériences fédéralistes
The English
Les Américains, des colons aux penseurs
Esprimo de sentoj en Esperanto
L' Europe et l'oddyssée de la Pologne au 19è siècle
Le choc des patriotismes
Esperanto at a glance
L'Europe et l'oddyssée de la Pologne au 19è siècle
L'Europe et l'odyssée de la Pologne au XIXe siècle
Shi jie yu shi
Życie dra Ludwika Zamenhofa
Karlo
Pere Miquel Carbonell
Pere Miquel Carbonell (1434-1517)

poet, jurist, historian, archivist

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Dos opuscles de Pere Miquel Carbonell
Chroniques de Espãya fins aci no divulgades
Cròniques d'Espanya
Edmond Lepelletier
Edmond Lepelletier (1846-1913)

lawyer, politician, journalist, poet

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Émile Zola
Paul Verlaine, sa vie--son œuvre
Madame Sans-Gêne
Paul Veraline
Shpion Imperatora ; Muchenik anglichan ; Naslednik Velikoǐ Frant︠s︡ii
Histoire de la Commune de 1871
Aux pays conquis; notes sur l'Alsace-Lorraine
Histoire de la Commune De 1871
Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein (1930-2019)

playwright, translator, poet, biographer

  • University of Cambridge

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Anna of all the Russias
Pushkin
Ted Hughes
Lawrence and the Women
Marina Tsvetayeva
Lawrence's women
A captive lion
It Goes With The Territory Memoirs Of A Poet
Bessie Smith
Ted Hughes
The survivors
The circle
Dark inheritance
The border
The crystal garden
Mother's girl
The Russian Jerusalem
Loving Brecht
All you need
Talking to the Dead
Selected poems
The magic apple tree
The celebrants, and other poems
Badlands
City music
Bride Of Ice New Selected Poems
Collected poems and translations
The glass alembic.
The silent areas
Russian Women Poets
Lady Chatterley's confession
Anna of All the Russias~Elaine Feinstein
Dreamers
Some unease and angels
Gold
Daylight
Je m'appelle Frieda Bloom
The shadow master
Cities
Clinic, Memory
The Amberstone exit
Bride of Ice
Matters of chance
LA Confesion De Lady Chatterley
Portraits
In a green eye
The ecstacy of Dr. Miriam Garner.
Lady Chatterley's confession
The feast of Eurydice
The ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner
At the edge
Children of the rose
Bessie Smith -Empress of the Blues
Deti Rozy
The crystal garden
Survivors
Russian Jerusalem
Música urbana
Circle
P.E.N. new poetry II
Three Russian poets
Children of the Rose
Anna Ajmátova
AFTER PUSHKIN Versions of the Poems of Sergeevich Pushkin by Contemporary Poets
Talking to the Dead
Yetsiʾat Ambersṭon
Pushkin
Homesickness
Francisco Navarro Ledesma
Francisco Navarro Ledesma (1869-1905)

journalist, poet, Cervantist

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El ingenioso hidalgo Migvel de Cervantes Saavedra
El ingenioso hidalgo Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
El ingenioso hidalgo Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cervantes
El ingenioso Hildalgo Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Lecturas literarias libro de ejemplos para el estudio de la lengua y literatura españolas
El ingenioso Hildalgo Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Lecciones de literatura
Cervantes
Jane Williams
Jane Williams (1806-1885)

poet, historian, biographer

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The literary women of England
A history of Wales
Jan Erazim Sojka
Jan Erazim Sojka (1826-1887)

poet, journalist

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Naši mužové: biografie a charakteristiky mužuv̇ slovanských
Naši mužové