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Title	:	Goodbye to All That
Author	:	Robert Graves
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Modern Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 281 pages
Published	:	September 28th 2000 by Penguin Modern Classics (first published 1929)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir. War. World War I. Classics

Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

Paperback | Pages: 281 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 9642 Users | 628 Reviews

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An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics. 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 looks at 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. Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known for the historical novel I, Claudius and the critical study of myth and poetry The White Goddess. His autobiography, Goodbye to All That, was published in 1929, quickly establishing itself as a modern classic. Graves also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. His translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin Classics.

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Original Title:	Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Robert Graves

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All the chickenhawks who think war is wonderful and glorious should read this book. Then go enlist.

The back cover blurb describes the contents of this volume as candid. That puzzled me until well into the text I realised that this was perhaps Robert Graves personal survival stratagem. My grandfathers was quite the reverse; only once, and when I was ill, did he talk to me of his military service in the Great War. Are there events where it is literally healthier for our psyche that we remember and learn from simple and candid fact, rather than spend excessive time in introspection attempting,

This book is a tale of three periods of Robert Graves's life, which spans his childhood, his involvement in WWI and the post-war years between 1918-1929. At this point the autobiography ends when Graves is 33. Graves added an epilogue later in which he comments that re-reading Goodbye to All That is much akin to reading ancient history.Graves takes us through his childhood years at a series of public schools, most notably Charthouse and then the main focus of WWI takes centre stage. I found

I probably would have liked this better if I'd been able to read it in print. Alas, most libraries don't have it these days, so I was lucky enough to get the abridged audio edition from my library. It's only four disks, and the fourth disk is far and away the most interesting. The earlier disks are filled with the repetitive miseries of World War I from the soldier's perspective, and also his strange upbringing as an English schoolboy. The fourth disk provides a lot more variety. He discusses

I wasn't really sure about this one beforehand - decided to read it purely because it was top of the pile of random books tht seems to have accumulated next to my bed. Turned out to be an inspired piece of untidiness.I really cannot recommend this highly enough - moving, heartfelt, and you constantly get the impression that Graves is playing his own achievements and contributions down in order to talk up his friends. This modesty does leave you feeling curiously as though you've not been told

All the chickenhawks who think war is wonderful and glorious should read this book. Then go enlist.

This is a good year to read about World War I and there's no shortage of new material out there for anyone interested in the subject. However, this is a work that has been around for a very long time: since 1929, in fact. Published when Graves was just thirty-four, he wrote in the prologue to the revised edition published in 1957 that the work was his "bitter leave-taking of England" where he had recently "broken a good many conventions". It signalled Graves' departure for Spain, where he lived