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Barbara

Product Description: Originally written in Danish, Barbara was the only novel written by the Faroese author Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-38). On the face of it, Barbara is a straightforward historical romance: it contains a story of passion in an exotic setting with overtones of semi-piracy; there is a powerful erotic element, an outsider who breaks up a marriage, and a built-in inevitability resulting from Barbara's own psychological make-up...read more

By George Johnston (trans)

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9781909408074 | Norvik Pr, June 14, 2014, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Originally written in Danish, Barbara was the only novel written by the Faroese author Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen (1900-38).

Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm Blissett in Letters

By Sean Kane (editor)

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9780889843455 | Porcupines Quill, October 1, 2011, cover price $29.95

The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, Pennsylvania

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By George Johnston (editor)

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9781104346690 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2009, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9781104322090 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

A History Of The British Zoophytes

By George Johnston

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9780548664124 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Schemers & Viga-Glum: Bandamanna Saga & Viga-Glums Saga

Product Description: George Johnston, renowned for his fine translations of Old Icelandic tales such as The Saga of Gisli and Thrand of Gotu, takes a look at two orally-preserved stories from the middle of the ninth to the eleventh century. The first, `The Saga of the Schemers', is unique in that the work is wholly imaginative and its mood is comic whereas most are weighted on the side of passion and tragedy...read more

By George Johnston (editor)

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9780889841895 | Porcupines Quill, November 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: George Johnston, renowned for his fine translations of Old Icelandic tales such as The Saga of Gisli and Thrand of Gotu, takes a look at two orally-preserved stories from the middle of the ninth to the eleventh century.

Clean Straw for Nothing/a Cartload of Clay

Product Description: These two classic tales of identity and exile by award winning author George Johnston focus on David, a successful war correspondent, as he attempts to find his place in the world. George Johnston, born 1912, launched his journalistic career at the age of 16...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By George Johnston

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9780207197482 | Harpercollins Australia, March 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: These two classic tales of identity and exile by award winning author George Johnston focus on David, a successful war correspondent, as he attempts to find his place in the world.

Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas: The Saga of Gisli/the Saga of Grettir/the Saga of Hord

Product Description: Here are three epic stories of exile and adventure: the heroes condemned to wander their lands in expiation of crimes committed in honour's name. Gisli with his biting sword Greyflank; Grettir the impetuous hot-head, and Hord the orphan, accursed at birth by his own mother...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Anthony Faulkes (editor) and George Johnston (trans)

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9780460882217 | Everyman, August 1, 2001, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Here are three epic stories of exile and adventure: the heroes condemned to wander their lands in expiation of crimes committed in honour's name.

My Brother Jack

Product Description: Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest, Aussie battler...read more

By George Johnston

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9780207197277 | Harpercollins Australia, June 30, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths - that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest, Aussie battler.

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9780207166419 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1992, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The Miles Franklin award-winning classic.

Thrand of Gotu: Two Icelandic Sagas from the Flat Island Book

Product Description: The two sagas of the Faroe Islanders and Greenlanders may be counted among the `Sagas of Icelanders', though Icelanders play no part in the first and little in the second, and events in both are remote from Iceland. They may be so categorized on account of their style, which is that of sober history, and not less so when events that we would consider supernatural occasionally take place in them...read more

By George Johnston (editor)

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9780889841802 | Porcupines Quill, December 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The two sagas of the Faroe Islanders and Greenlanders may be counted among the `Sagas of Icelanders', though Icelanders play no part in the first and little in the second, and events in both are remote from Iceland.

Barbara: Novel

Product Description: The only novel by the Faroese author, yet an international best-seller remaining one of the best-loved twentieth century classics in Danish and Faroese literature. ""Its twofold achievement is a remarkable evocation of the starkness of life in the Faroe Islands in the 1750s and of the vitality and sexuality of an extraordinary woman, an amoral Cleopatra within a brow-beaten community...read more

By Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen and George Johnston (trans)

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9781870041225 | Reprint edition (Dufour Editions, December 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The only novel by the Faroese author, yet an international best-seller remaining one of the best-loved twentieth century classics in Danish and Faroese literature.

Opening the Scriptures: A Journey Through the Stories and Symbols of the Bible

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By George Johnston

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9780919000810 | United Church Pub House, January 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Johnston, George

Qndeared by Dark

Product Description: `Johnston may well be Canada's most accomplished poet in the sense that he writes poetry as a craft, not as self-revelation, or propaganda, or "high art", or psychological therapy. He is preoccupied with rhythms, with diction, with tones and nuances, and the creative challenge of complex metres and stanza forms...read more

By George Johnston

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9780889841079 | Porcupines Quill, May 15, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: `Johnston may well be Canada's most accomplished poet in the sense that he writes poetry as a craft, not as self-revelation, or propaganda, or "high art", or psychological therapy.

Clean Straw for Nothing

By George Johnston

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9780947072414 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, April 1, 1989), cover price $15.95

The Basset Hound

By George Johnston

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9780091221102 | Hutchinson Educational, April 1, 1988, cover price $24.95

Auk Redivivus: Selected Poems

Product Description: A collection of poems by George Johnston.

By George Johnston

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9780919614390 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, December 1, 1981, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A collection of poems by George Johnston.

Taking a Grip: Poems 1972-1978

Product Description: Taking a Grip by George Johnston.

By George Johnston

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9780919614277 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, January 1, 1978, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Taking a Grip by George Johnston.

The Saga of Gisli

By George Johnston (trans)

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9780460102520 | J M Dent & Sons Ltd, June 1, 1973, cover price $6.50

The Spirit-paraclete in the Gospel of John

Product Description: This book attempts to make a contribution to the New Testament doctrine of the Spirit, with special reference to the paraclete problem. Dr Johnston begins with the use of the word 'spirit' in the Gospel of John and treats it as primarily 'impersonal'...read more

By George Johnston

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9780521077613 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 2, 1970, cover price $8.20 | About this edition: This book attempts to make a contribution to the New Testament doctrine of the Spirit, with special reference to the paraclete problem.

Saga of Gisli the Outlaw

Product Description: The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century. It offers an imaginative reconstruction of the story of a man and his family who came to Iceland from Norway about AD 960. Soon after 960 Gisli, the central figure, was outlawed for killing his brother-in-law, and then, for thirteen years or more, he lived in hiding in remote parts of the northwest of Iceland until he was finally caught and killed by his enemies...read more

By George Johnston

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9780802062192 | Univ of Toronto Pr, June 1, 1963, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Saga of Gisli was written early in the thirteenth century.

History of Cecil County, Maryland: And the Early Settlements Around the Head of the Chesapeake Bay and on the Delaware River With Sketches of Some of the Old Families of Cecil County

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By George Johnston

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9780806379883 | Reprint edition (Clearfield Co, June 1, 2009), cover price $52.50

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