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The Great Canadian Anecdote Contest
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Product Description: Two fishermen find a whale trapped in their net; neither of them can swim so they must trust the whale to support them while they out away the net and get back to the boat. . . In the wilderness of the Peace River, a man performs delicate surgery on his sick comrade, without anaesthetic, and with only the assistance of a doctor's voice on the radiotelephone...read more
By George Woodcock (editor)
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9781550170580 | Harbour Pub Co, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Two fishermen find a whale trapped in their net; neither of them can swim so they must trust the whale to support them while they out away the net and get back to the boat.

Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & Other Poems
By George Woodcock
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9781550820058 | Quarry Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $10.95

Introducing Sinclair Ross's As for Me & My House: A Reader's Guide
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Product Description: “It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind...read more
By George Woodcock
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9780773673007 | General Pub Co Ltd, March 1, 1991, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: “It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy.

Introducing Mordecai Richler's: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By George Woodcock
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9781550220193 | E C W Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $18.95

Writers and Politics
By George Woodcock
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9780921689829 | Black Rose Books Ltd, June 1, 1990, cover price $17.99

Introducing Margaret Atwoods Surfacing
By George Woodcock
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9781550220209 | E C W Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $18.95

Introducing Margaret Laurence's the Stone Angel
By George Woodcock
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9781550220179, titled "Introducing Margaret Laurence's the Stone Angel" | E C W Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $18.95

Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising
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Product Description: Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book contains clear information on a major Canadian novel. Attractively produced, they contain a chronology of the author's life, information on the importance of the book and its critical reception, an in-depth reading of the text, and a selected list of works cited...read more
By George Woodcock
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9781550221145, titled "Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising" | E C W Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes.

From Prince to Rebel
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By Ivan Avokumovic and George Woodcock
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9780921689607 | Reprint edition (Black Rose Books Ltd, April 1, 1990), cover price $19.99

Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel
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Product Description: This biography surveys and analyzes the most significant aspects of Peter Kropotkin's life and thought: his formative years in Russia, 1842-1876, and the origins of his anarchist thinking; his years as an emigré in Western Europe, 1876-1917, and the ripening of his political thought; and his last years in the Soviet Union, 1917-1921...read more
By Ivan Avakumovic and George Woodcock
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9780921689614 | Reprint edition (Black Rose Books Ltd, April 1, 1990), cover price $48.99 | About this edition: This biography surveys and analyzes the most significant aspects of Peter Kropotkin's life and thought: his formative years in Russia, 1842-1876, and the origins of his anarchist thinking; his years as an emigré in Western Europe, 1876-1917, and the ripening of his political thought; and his last years in the Soviet Union, 1917-1921.

The Century That Made Us: Canada, 1814-1914
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Product Description: A highly readable, informal study, this book explores the changing attitudes of Canadians that accompanied the many political, social, and technological developments in the hundred years between the War of 1812-14 and World War I...read more
By George Woodcock
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9780195407037 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A highly readable, informal study, this book explores the changing attitudes of Canadians that accompanied the many political, social, and technological developments in the hundred years between the War of 1812-14 and World War I.

British Columbia: A History of the Province
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Product Description: The one constant factor in this long narrative, not only in terms of physical geography but also in cultural, ethnic and political ways, of the province on the Pacific, known as British Columbia, is its distinctiveness.
By George Woodcock
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9780888947024 | Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The one constant factor in this long narrative, not only in terms of physical geography but also in cultural, ethnic and political ways, of the province on the Pacific, known as British Columbia, is its distinctiveness.

The Writer and Politics
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Product Description: "The author critiques such international figures as Alexander Herzen, Peter Kropotkin, Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Kafka and Proudhon.... The book indeed provides a good background to the intellectual development of one of the most prominent Canadian humanist voices...read more
By George Woodcock
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9780921689836 | Black Rose Books Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $46.99 | About this edition: "The author critiques such international figures as Alexander Herzen, Peter Kropotkin, Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Kafka and Proudhon.

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9780000016058 | Black Rose Books Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | also contains Izombie, Philip's Street Atlas Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen, Ellon, Fraserburgh, Inverurie, Peterhead, Stonehaven | About this edition: "The author critiques such international figures as Alexander Herzen, Peter Kropotkin, Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Kafka and Proudhon.
9780000016058 | Black Rose Books Ltd, June 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | also contains Izombie, Philip's Street Atlas Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen, Ellon, Fraserburgh, Inverurie, Peterhead, Stonehaven | About this edition: "The author critiques such international figures as Alexander Herzen, Peter Kropotkin, Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Kafka and Proudhon.

Powers of Observation
By George Woodcock
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9780919627154 | Quarry Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $12.95

Oscar Wilde: The Double Image. Reprint
By George Woodcock
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9780921689430 | Black Rose Books Ltd, May 1, 1989, cover price $48.99

Aphra Behn: The English Sappho
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Product Description: "All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."--Virginia Woolf¶ "A valuable introduction to this remarkable woman who was a pioneer feminist, free spirit, liberated woman and professional writer during the Restoration...read more
By George Woodcock
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9780921689416 | Black Rose Books Ltd, April 1, 1989, cover price $48.99 | About this edition: "All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

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9780921689409 | Black Rose Books Ltd, April 1, 1989, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Dry Wells of India: An Anthology Against Thirst
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Product Description: The Canadian Poetry Contest was launched to provide funds to help Canada India Village Aid in its programme of building dams and digging wells to counter the serious drought conditions that have arisen in northwestern India. A total of 1,255 poets entered no less than 3,223 poems...read more
By George Woodcock (editor)
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9781550170016 | Harbour Pub Co, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Canadian Poetry Contest was launched to provide funds to help Canada India Village Aid in its programme of building dams and digging wells to counter the serious drought conditions that have arisen in northwestern India.

Caves in the Desert: Travels in China
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Product Description: Book by Woodcock, George
By George Woodcock
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9780888946195 | Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, June 1, 1988, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Woodcock, George

Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature
By George Woodcock
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9780888945365 | Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, June 1, 1987, cover price $12.95

School and Library:

9780027929904, titled "Helmet of Navarre" | Atheneum, September 1, 1965, cover price $8.95 | also contains Helmet of Navarre

Matt Cohen
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Product Description: A study of Canadian writer Matt Cohen.
By George Woodcock
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9780920763292 | E C W Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A study of Canadian writer Matt Cohen.

20th Century Fiction
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By George Woodcock
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9780912289199 | St James Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Woodcock, George

Patrick Lane and His Works
By George Woodcock
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9780920802946 | E C W Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $9.95

Orwell's Message: 1984 And the Present
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Product Description: The Crystal Spirit, George Woodcock's intellectual biography of George Orwell, won the 1966 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. In this book he turns his attention to 1984, the novel which expresses Orwell's fears for the future, and his exhortations against totalitarianism...read more
By George Woodcock
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9780920080863 | Harbour Pub Co, August 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Crystal Spirit, George Woodcock's intellectual biography of George Orwell, won the 1966 Governor General's Award for non-fiction.

British Columbia: A Celebration
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Product Description: Book by Woodcock, George, Kraulis, J. A.
By J. A. Kraulis and George Woodcock
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9780888302397 | Hurtig Pub, September 1, 1983, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Woodcock, George, Kraulis, J.

Collected Poems
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By George Woodcock
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9780919203402 | Sono Nis Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $14.95

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