Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) (Paperback)

~ Robert Graves (Author)

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Product Description

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

About the Author

Born in 1895, Robert Graves went straight from school to the First World War, where he became a captain. A poet at heart, he also wrote several historical novels which include I, Claudius and Claudius the God - GOODBYE TO ALL THAT was written in 1929 and rapidly established itself as a modern classic. He translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and complied The Greek Myths. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961. He died at his home in Majorca in 1929.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (February 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140274200
• ISBN-13: 978-0140274202
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #759,596 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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