Goodbye to All That (1957)
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic Great War memoir
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Printing Details
New Edition (Revised, with a prologue and epilogue). Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14cm, vii + 306pp.
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.
Condition
A good solid copy but with tanning to the wrapper's spine and edges, some offsetting where a newspaper article has been loosely inserted at p72, and previously owned by a smoker so has a tobacco odour.
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Price
£15.00
