George Woodcock
Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. He is most commonly known outside Canada for his book Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements .
George Woodcock's Published Works
Published Works
- After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (1975) (737)
- Anarchism: A History Of Libertarian Ideas And Movements (1962) (187)
- The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin (1971) (52)
- The Anarchist reader (1977) (37)
- The Greeks in India (1966) (34)
- The Metis in the Canadian West (1990) (34)
- British Columbia: A History Of The Province (1989) (29)
- The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (1966) (28)
- A chromosome survey of a hospital for the mentally subnormal Part 1: Sex chromosome abnormalities (1972) (27)
- Merchants Against Industry: An Idea and its Origins (1975) (25)
- Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature (1987) (23)
- Gandhi on Non-Violence. (1965) (22)
- Dawn and the darkest hour: a study of Aldous Huxley (1972) (21)
- The Naturalistic Tradition in Indian Thought (1961) (19)
- Strange Bedfellows: The State and the Arts in Canada (1985) (18)
- The Paradox of Oscar Wilde (1950) (18)
- Delusions and Discoveries: Studies on India in the British Imagination, 1880–1930 (1973) (17)
- Kerala, A Portrait of the Malabar Coast (1967) (15)
- Voices from Tiananmen Square : Beijing Spring and the democracy movement (1990) (14)
- Social revolution in a Kerala village : a study in culture change (1965) (13)
- The British in the Far East (1969) (13)
- Speaking Modern: Language, Culture, and Hegemony in Grocery Window Displays, 1887–1920 (1989) (13)
- E.P. Thompson vs Harold Logan: Writing about Labour and the Left in the 1970s (1981) (11)
- A Place to stand on : essays by and about Margaret Laurence (1983) (11)
- A Social History of Canada (1988) (11)
- Great Sanskrit Plays in Modern Translation. (1964) (10)
- The Incomparable Aphra (1948) (10)
- Herbert Read: the stream and the source (1972) (9)
- The Writer and Politics (1948) (9)
- Peoples of the coast: the Indians of the Pacific Northwest (1977) (9)
- Aphra Behn: The English Sappho (1948) (9)
- Gabriel Dumont: the Métis chief and his lost world (1975) (9)
- Henry Walter Bates: Naturalist of the Amazons (1972) (8)
- Orwell's message : 1984 and the present (1984) (8)
- The Century That Made Us: Canada 1814-1914 (1989) (8)
- Son of a Smaller Hero (1955) (8)
- The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867 (1977) (8)
- The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) (7)
- William Godwin: a biographical study (1946) (7)
- Documents in Canadian Art (1987) (7)
- Two under the Indian sun (1966) (6)
- The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin. (1952) (5)
- The Long Day Wanes (1984) (5)
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon: his life and work (1972) (5)
- Anarchy or Chaos (1944) (5)
- Canada and the Canadians (1970) (5)
- The meeting of time and space : regionalism in Canadian literature (1981) (5)
- Evolution And Environment (1995) (5)
- Introducing Margaret Atwood's Surfacing: A Reader's Guide // Review (1994) (4)
- Three French Writers and the Great War: Studies in the Rise of Communism and Fascism (1977) (4)
- The Commonwealth Pen. (1961) (4)
- Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work (1971) (4)
- The Tyranny of the Clock (1996) (4)
- Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study (1978) (4)
- Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel (1990) (3)
- Report of 96th annual Trades Union Congress held in the Opera House at Blackpool, September 7th to 11th 1964 (1964) (3)
- Into Tibet: The Early British Explorers (1971) (3)
- Who Killed the British Empire? An Inquest. (1975) (3)
- The world of Canadian writing: Critiques & recollections (1980) (3)
- The Rejection of Politics and other essays on Canada, Canadians, anarchism and the world (1972) (3)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: A Biography (1956) (3)
- Diana's Priest in the Bush Garden (1974) (3)
- Odysseus ever returning : essays on Canadian writers and writing (1970) (3)
- The Wild Woman: Notes on West Coast Writing (1987) (3)
- A Distant and A Deadly Shore: Notes on the Literature of the Sahibs (1973) (3)
- Book Review: Africa: Black Revolutionary: George Padmore's Path from Communism to Pan-Africanism (1968) (3)
- The Meeting of the Muses: Recent Canadian Fiction and the Historical Viewpoint (1979) (2)
- Attitudes to Class in the English Novel from Walter Scott to David Storey (1980) (2)
- When the Past Becomes History: The Half-Century in Non-Fiction Prose (1980) (2)
- Report of 94th annual Trades Union Congress held at the Opera House, Blackpool, September 3 to 7, 1962 (1962) (2)
- Two cheers for the Commonwealth (1970) (2)
- Intellectuals and the Popular Culture (1984) (2)
- A hundred years of revolution, 1848 and after (1948) (2)
- Savage and domestic: The Parks of Vancouver (1983) (2)
- Introducing Sinclair Ross's As for me and my house (1990) (2)
- : The Canadian Brothers; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled: A Tale of the Late American War. . John Richardson. (1977) (2)
- Nationalism or local control : responses to George Woodcock (1973) (2)
- The Silent Majority: A Study of the Working Class in Post-War British Fiction (1974) (2)
- 20th Century Fiction (1983) (2)
- Political Preferences in Kerala. (1970) (2)
- Introducing Margaret Laurence's The stone angel : a reader's guide (1989) (2)
- The Anarchist Prince. The Biography of Prince Peter Kropotkin (1953) (2)
- Speaker for the Tribes (1987) (2)
- A Political art : essays and images in honour George Woodcock (1978) (2)
- The Changing Masks of Empire: Notes on Some Novels by Sara Jeannette Duncan (1983) (2)
- Tin roofs and palm trees (1977) (2)
- Many Solitudes: The Travel Writings of Margaret Laurence (1978) (1)
- Balachandra Rajan: The critic as novelist (1984) (1)
- Frye's Bible (1982) (1)
- Regional Government: The Italian Example (1967) (1)
- 14. The Unforgivable Sin of Ignorance: Notes on The Engineer of Human Souls (1989) (1994) (1)
- Oscar Wilde: The Double Image (1989) (1)
- George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction (1992) (1)
- Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography.@@@Towards Universal Man. (1964) (1)
- Society and the writer : essays on literature in modern Asia (1983) (1)
- Hear! Hear! 125 Years of Debate in Canada's House of Commons@@@Power to Us All: Constitution or Social Contract? (1993) (1)
- The Anarchist Prince: The Biography of Prince Peter Kropotkin (1951) (1)
- George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry@@@ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets (1994) (1)
- South sea journey (1976) (1)
- Callaghan’s Toronto: The persona of a city (1972) (1)
- Surfacing to Survive: Notes of the Recent Atwood (1973) (1)
- The Metis in the Canadian West. Volume 1@@@The Metis in the Canadian West. Volume 2 (1988) (1)
- A Choice of Critics: Selections from 'Canadian Literature' (1969) (1)
- The Canadian novel in the twentieth century : essays from Canadian literature (1975) (1)
- Wyndham Lewis in Canada (1971) (1)
- Armies Moving in the Night: The Fictions of Matt Cohen (1979) (1)
- Paradise lost and regained in the novels of Balchandra Rajan (1992) (1)
- A George Woodcock reader (1980) (1)
- British Columbia: A Celebration (1983) (0)
- Jack Wise : A Decade of Work (1977) (0)
- What a local chapter can do to put accurate material into libraries (1992) (0)
- Walking the Indian Streets.@@@Chronicles of Kedaram.@@@Distant Drum. (1962) (0)
- CANADIAN LITERATURE: THE MAKING OF A MAGAZINE (1977) (0)
- Dealing with anti-nuclear sentiment: Some local approaches (1992) (0)
- Anarchism (2004) (0)
- An Atlas of Utopias (1980) (0)
- Report of proceedings at the 93rd annual Trades Union Congress held at the Guildhall, Portsmouth, September 4 to 8, 1961 (1961) (0)
- Snobbery and creativity in English country-house culture (1994) (0)
- Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974 (1974) (0)
- Indian Literature.@@@A Guide to Oriental Classics.@@@The Mahabharata: An English version based on selected verses.@@@The Bhagavad Gita.@@@The Panchattra.@@@Ananga Ranga.@@@A Bend in the Ganges. (1965) (0)
- Review of Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion ByBob Beal and Rod Macleod (1985) (0)
- Matt Cohen, Night Flight: Stories New and Selected (1978) (0)
- Orwell's Fiction (1970) (0)
- A View of Canadian Criticism (1955) (0)
- The Moghul. A Novel of India. (1983) (0)
- Alistair Bell : Prints, 1982-1992 (1992) (0)
- Norman Douglas: The Willing Exile (1982) (0)
- Revealing the self (1993) (0)
- Another Woodcock-Purdy letter (1993) (0)
- Literary Lines in China (1967) (0)
- Asia, Gods and Cities: Aden to Tokyo (1966) (0)
- Mastering the Mountains. (1977) (0)
- The making of books on love (1994) (0)
- Jack Shadbolt : Act of Painting (1984) (0)
- The Timely Rain: Travels in Tibet. (1967) (0)
- Writers and politics (1990) (0)
- Report of 99th annual Trades Union Congress, held in the Dome, Brighton September 4th to 8th 1967 (1967) (0)
- Grass Huts and Warehouses. Pacific Beach Communities of the Nineteenth Century. (1979) (0)
- Report of proceedings at the 92nd annual Trades Union Congress held at the Villa Marina, Douglas, September 5 to 9, 1960 (1960) (0)
- Railways and society (1943) (0)
- Publishing as play: The Hogarth Press (1994) (0)
- A picture history of British Columbia (1999) (0)
- Emile Capouya and Keitha Tompkins, eds., The Essential Kropotkin, New York: Liveright, 1975. 294 pp. $12.50. (1976) (0)
- Doukhobors and Canadian Coercion (1994) (0)
- Tibetan Civilization@@@Into Tibet: The Early British Explorers (1975) (0)
- Aldous Huxley@@@Aldous Huxley's Quest for Values@@@Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley@@@Aldous Huxley: Satirist and Novelist (1974) (0)
- Incas and Other Men: Travels in the Andes (1959) (0)
- The Hanford Waste Vitrification Plant Project Technology Exchange program (1992) (0)
- To the City of the Dead: An Account of Travels in Mexico@@@Man and Mammoth in Mexico (1958) (0)
- George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction@@@ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists (1994) (0)
- Index of Books Reviewed (1979) (0)
- Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature (1972) (0)
- Faces from history: Canadian profiles & portraits (1978) (0)
- Faces of India : a travel narrative (1964) (0)
- The woman on the treadmill: A recollective pastiche on Cambodia, 1964 (1994) (0)
- The futility of power (1971) (0)
- Things as They Might Be: Things as They Are (1974) (0)
- The Other Turgenev: From Romanticism to Symbolism. By Marina Ledkovsky. Colloquium Slavicum, Beiträge zur Slavistik, no. 2. Würzburg: Jal-Verlag, 1973.170 pp. DM 24, paper. (1974) (0)
- The distress in Coventry and North Warwickshire : letter to C.N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P. : showing the effect the French Treaty has had upon the ribbon trade in the city and district (0)
- Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel (1978) (0)
- Incas and Other Men (1960) (0)
- Faces of India. A Travel Narrative.@@@Indian Excursion. (1966) (0)
- A special section on New Canadian Books (1974) (0)
- Canadian poets, 1960-1973 : a list (1976) (0)
- Powers of Observation (1989) (0)
- An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry.@@@Gods, Demons and Others.@@@Drama in Rural India.@@@Modern Indian Thought. (1965) (0)
- Turvey : a military picaresque (1949) (0)
- The University of British Columbia: A Souvenir (1986) (0)
- Empires of blood and sun (1994) (0)
- The Wilderness Observed: A Review Article (1969) (0)
- The apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb [book review] (1985) (0)
- Two Great Commonwealth Novelists R. K. Narayan and V. S. Naipaul in Commonwealth Literature. (1979) (0)
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