George Woodcock

George Woodcock (1912-1995) is one of Canada's best-known and most prolific authors. He was born in Winnipeg and educated in England, where he socialized with some of the century's most prominent writers and intellectuals including Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Herbert Read and T.S. Eliot. He returned to Canada in 1949 and taught at the University of British Columbia for many years. In 1959, he founded the journal Canadian Literature. His contribtution to Canadian culture is immeasurable; he either wrote or edited over one-hundred books including The Crystal Spirit, his Governor-Genral's award-winning biography of Orwell; Gabriel Dumont, another bestselling biography; and Anarchism a guide to the political philosophy which continues to be read around the world. His wide range of writing includes literary criticism, poetry, travel writing, plays, social history, biography, politics and essays.

Books by George Woodcock

The Orwell Tapes

Colony and Confederation

This Side Jordan

Anarchism

Gabriel Dumont

Walking Through the Valley

Moral Predicament

George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction

George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry

Power to Us All

Introducing Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Great Canadian Anecdote Contest

WRITER AND POLITICS

WRITER AND POLITICS

Introducing Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My Body

PETER KROPOTKIN

Introducing Margaret Atwood's Surfacing

Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer Rising

Canadian Writers and Their Works - Poetry

WM GOODWIN

OSCAR WILDE

OSCAR WILDE

APHRA BENN

Canadian Writers and Their Works - Fiction

Dry Wells of India

P J PROUDHON

Matt Cohen and His Works

The Marvellous Century

The Metis in the Canadian West: Volume II

The Metis in the Canadian West: Volume I

Patrick Lane and His Works

Orwell's Message

Collected Poems

Ivan Eyre: Limited Edition

The Mountain Road

The Doukhobors

Two Plays

Malcolm Lowry