Goodbye to All That (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Graves, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140180982 ISBN 13: 9780140180985

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1990

Synopsis

English novelist, poet, and essayist Graves, author of "I, Claudius" describes the break he made with his past in 1929. In chronicling his youth, World War I experiences, and years at Oxford, Graves gives parallel accounts of the end of his own innocence and that of the world prior to the Great War.

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About the Author

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

From the Inside Flap

Robert Graves' superb autobiography tells the story of his life at public school and as a young officer during the First World War.

'From the moment of its first appearance an established classic' --John Wain in the Observer

'It is a permanently valuable work of literary art, and indispensable for the historian either of the First World War or of modern English poetry... Apart, however, from its exceptional value as a war document, this book has also the interest of being one of the most candid self- portraits of a poet, warts and all, ever painted. The sketches of friends of Mr Graves, like T. E. Lawrence, are beautifully vivid' --The Times Literary Supplement

'One of the classic accounts of the Western Front. . . In it the veteran survivors recognised their own war' The Times

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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140180982
• ISBN 13: 9780140180985
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288