Bøker av George Woodcock

This title provides insight into the challenge Lowry set for himself as an artist and the agonies he endured as he wrestled with the problems of integrating his work and his life.

"The Crystal Spirit" is a revealing look at the great writer and political thinker George Orwell, whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of twentieth-century literature. A close friend and colleague during the last decade of that remarkable writer's life, Woodcock was uniquely qualified to delve into the complex personal history of the man. Interwoven with Woodcock's own memories, the letters Orwell wrote to him and the published and unpublished recollections of other people who knew him, all against the political and literary background of Orwell's work, this groundbreaking intellectual biography is a general critique that brilliantly traces the evolution of an original writer in his most productive years. First published in 1966, it was awarded Canada's highest literary prize, the Governor General's Award for Literary Merit.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the nineteenth century. Proudhon played a great part in the First International and Paris Commune, in French syndicalism and in contemporary movements for currency reform. This book presents the first full-scale biography of Proudhon.

Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice. The Egoist is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.

A study of the changing attitudes of Canadians that accompanied the many political, social, and technological changes in the century between the War of 1812-14 and the Great War.

"The essential introduction to the classical anarchist thinkers." - Mark Leier, Simon Fraser University

"The reissue of George Woodcock's superb biography once again opens a door on the vanished world of the nineteenth century Canadian Prairies." - Richard Sandhurst, Prairie Books NOW