A searing farewell to innocence, Goodbye to All That is Robert Graves's unflinching, unforgettable memoir of youth, war, and disillusionment. Written in the aftermath of World War I, this literary classic begins with Graves's idyllic childhood in Victorian England and follows him through the brutal trenches of the Western Front, where he served as a young officer. With clarity and biting wit, Graves exposes the absurdities of military life, the horrors of modern warfare, and the cultural collapse that followed in its wake.
But this is more than just a war memoir. It's a generational reckoning. A portrait of a world coming apart-and a man walking away from it. With disarming honesty, Graves dissects his friendships (including with fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon), his shattered ideals, and his permanent break from the England he once called home. Goodbye to All That is one of the most powerful, candid, and beautifully written accounts of the First World War-and the end of an era.
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Height: 229 mm
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978-1-5154-6483-9 (9781515464839)
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Robert Graves (1895-1985) was an English poet, novelist, and classical scholar whose work spanned modernist poetry, historical fiction, and literary criticism. A veteran of the First World War, Graves drew upon his wartime experience in his memoir Goodbye to All That, a candid and often unsentimental account of trench warfare and its aftermath. The book remains one of the most significant personal narratives to emerge from the conflict.Beyond memoir, Graves achieved lasting fame with historical novels such as I, Claudius and Claudius the God, which reimagined the early Roman Empire through psychologically nuanced storytelling. His scholarship, including The White Goddess, reflected a lifelong engagement with myth, language, and poetic tradition.Graves spent much of his later life in Majorca, where he continued to write poetry and prose. His wide-ranging body of work, marked by intellectual independence and stylistic precision, secured his place as a distinctive voice in twentieth-century English literature.
