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Goodbye to All That: Introduction by Miranda Seymour
Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. The memoir documents not only his own personal experience, as a patriotic young officer, of the horrors and disillusionment of battle, but also the wider loss of innocence the Great War brought about. By the time of his writing, a way of life had ended, and England and the modern world would never be the same. In Graves's portrayal of the dehumanizing misery of the trenches, his grief over lost friends, and the surreal absurdity of government bureaucracy, Graves uses broad comedy to make the most serious points about life and death.
Book Details
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Publish Date: Apr 24th, 2018
- Pages: 408
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.30in - 1.10in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781101907986
- Categories: • Literary Figures• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Military
About the Author
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What people are saying
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://t.co/R6CMLAObl3 | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Reading Robert Graves' 'Goodbye to All That' and giggling at this: https://t.co/HxSYG8vRH5
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My favorite of this genre is “Goodbye to All That” by Robert Graves, a vet and author of “I, Claudius” among others. Also the War Poems of Sassoon, Owens, and so many more… https://t.co/xGkGAh3P3N
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#OTD in 1958: A reissue of Robert Graves’s fabled account of the First World War, “Goodbye to All That”, prompted the distinguished military historian Michael Howard to compare the writing of the First and Second World Wars. https://t.co/5YcYRCx9O0
Praise for this book
--Paul Fussell
"One of the classic accounts of the Western Front."
--THE TIMES (London)
"From the moment of its first appearance an established classic."
--THE OBSERVER (London)
"One of the most candid self-portraits of a poet . . . ever painted."
--THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (London)
"Goodbye to All That is among the finest books about war that has ever been written. The cool but burning lucidity with which Graves describes the ironies--the boredom; the terror; the vertiginous swings between extreme happiness and jangling nervousness--of serving both on the front line, and behind it, are perhaps best experienced by reading the author's own words from the trenches." --from the Introduction by Miranda Seymour
What people are saying
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://t.co/R6CMLAObl3 | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Reading Robert Graves' 'Goodbye to All That' and giggling at this: https://t.co/HxSYG8vRH5
Thinkers 360 Top 10 in Coaching + Management + Leadership | Top 100 Speaker | MG100 Exec. Coach | Forbes & HBR contributor | 16x Author
My favorite of this genre is “Goodbye to All That” by Robert Graves, a vet and author of “I, Claudius” among others. Also the War Poems of Sassoon, Owens, and so many more… https://t.co/xGkGAh3P3N