Goodbye to All That
Sept 2000 · Penguin UK
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In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.
It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.
Includes illustrations and explanatory footnotes.
It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.
Includes illustrations and explanatory footnotes.
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4.4
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28 August 2017
This book is good ,but I feel sad about the author,he died, I wish he could live 22 years more , I celebrate his birthday , It must cost 1 trillion euros (2 trillion dollars)(130 trillion rupees)
AC Melka
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22 May 2018
Graves mastery of writing mixed with the personal tone and the literary
giants he rubbed shoulders with on the firestep makes this a must read for
any student of the great war.
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Mark Stockton
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16 January 2022
excellent read, I thoroughly enjoyed them.
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.
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