Good-Bye to All That - An Autobiography

"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing." This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling from the trenches. 'We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one' Andrew Motion 'One of the most candid self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted' TLS

A propos de l'auteur

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.Andrew Motion's most recent collection is New and Selected Poems 1977-2022 (2023). He was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart, and since 2015 has lived in Baltimore, where he is Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.

Résumé

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing. This is the memoir of the First World War.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Fran Brearton, Robert Graves, Andrew Motion, Robert Graves
• Collaboration: Fran Brearton (Editeur), Brearton Fran (Editeur), Andrew Motion (Introduction)
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format A
• Sortie: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780141392660
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139266-0
• Pages: 496
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 185 mm x 25 mm
• Thèmes: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, Literary studies: poetry & poets, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets