Book description
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.
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.
