{"product_id":"9780141184593-goodbye-to-all-that","title":"Goodbye to All That","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1929 the author went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This book is an 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known for the historical novel \u003ci\u003eI, Claudius\u003c\/i\u003e and the critical study of myth and poetry \u003ci\u003eThe White Goddess\u003c\/i\u003e. His autobiography, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Myths\u003c\/i\u003e. His translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám\u003c\/i\u003e (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Ford Madox Ford's \u003ci\u003eParade's End\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His wonderful autobiography'\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Paxman, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943049179233,"sku":"9780141184593","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32249621.jpg?v=1737102540","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141184593-goodbye-to-all-that","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}