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OSCAR WILDE

by (author) George Woodcock

Publisher
Black Rose Books
Initial publish date
Jul 1989
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780921689430
    Publish Date
    Jul 1989
    List Price
    $48.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780921689423
    Publish Date
    Jul 1989
    List Price
    $19.99

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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.

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