Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics)

AnautobiographicalworkthatdescribesfirsthandthegreattectonicshiftsinEnglishsocietyfollowingtheFirstWorldWar,RobertGraves'sGoodbyetoAllThatisamatchlessevocationoftheGreatWar'shauntinglegacy,publishedinPenguinModernClassics.In1929RobertGraveswenttoliveabroadpermanently,vowing'nevertomakeEnglandmyhomeagain'.Thisishissuperbaccountofhislifeupuntilthat'bitterleave-taking':fromhischildhoodanddesperatelyunhappyschooldaysatCharterhouse,tohistimeservingasayoungofficerintheFirstWorldWarthatwastohaunthimthroughouthislife.Italsocontainsmemorableencounterswithfellowwritersandpoets,includingSiegfriedSassoonandThomasHardy,andcovershisincreasinglyunhappymarriagetoNancyNicholson.GoodbyetoAllThat,withitsvivid,harrowingdescriptionsoftheWesternFront,isaclassicwardocument,andalsohasimmensevalueasoneofthemostcandidself-portraitsofanartisteverwritten.RobertRankeGraves(1895-1985)wasaBritishpoet,novelist,andcritic.HeisbestknownforthehistoricalnovelI,ClaudiusandthecriticalstudyofmythandpoetryTheWhiteGoddess.Hisautobiography,GoodbyetoAllThat,waspublishedin1929,quicklyestablishingitselfasamodernclassic.GravesalsotranslatedApuleius,LucanandSuetoniusforthePenguinClassics,andcompiledthefirstmoderndictionaryofGreekMythology,TheGreekMyths.HistranslationofTheRubáiyátofOmarKhayyám(withOmarAli-Shah)isalsopublishedinPenguinClassics.