About this title: Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 1958-02-01
ISBN-13:9780385093309ISBN:0385093306
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Edition: Second Revised Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday Anchor, Garden City NY
Date Published: 1958
ISBN-13:9780385093309ISBN:0385093306
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 0385093306. Pb, light plus wear/soil, crease at spine/upper front corner/front side edge, lower spine re-inforced, marker spot on front cover, stamps on 1st pg-1 marked out bleeding over to 2nd pg, pgs clean/white; Ex-Library; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 347 pages. read more
Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books; Random House, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780385093309ISBN:0385093306
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 347 pp.; 21 cm. First published, 1929. VG. Bookstore stamp/tail edge, otherwise tight & clean. Age toning. "In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1957-06-01
ISBN-13:9780385093309ISBN:0385093306
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No Jacket. Book is tight & clean/unmarked text with 1/4" tear to spin top & staining to lower part of cover & spine-barely read & a nice book! read more
Edition: second impression, November 1929
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. partially erased remnants of owner's signature, and tape marks from cover on endpapers; some yellowing to page edges; boards faded and slightly stained; spine faded and edges rubbed. 448p., plates; 21 cm. read more
Edition: First Separate
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classic
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140180985ISBN:0140180982
Description: Fine. NR FINE 1991 BLUE SPINE PENGUIN 20TH CENTURY CLASSIC WITH SUPERB STANLEY SPENCER COVER PAINTING & GLOSSY PHOTO SECTION. A CLASSIC OF WW1 MILITARY WRITING. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE FROM UK FILM/HISTORY SPECIALIST-MORE BY GRAVES AVAILABLE. read more
"I'll probably finish this eventually, but I'm really bogged down in it. There is so much stuff about an England that no longer exists, about public schools, and jokes dependent upon Greek conjugation that I can detect that Graves is being witty without understanding why. Maybe it will change when he gets to the war, but so far it has been more cryptic humor about regimental history. I really feel culturally stymied by this book, and I thought that I was pretty well versed in the closer points of England. In its favor, I did enjoy the few pages about his German summers."
"I thoroughly enjoyed this autobiography for its well-written account of growing up in a priviledged English family and experiencing WWI both in the trenches and on the home front. He also had to opportunity to interact with writers who would later make names for themselves. Graves' writing skill was already highly polished at this young age."
"I saw this autobiography by Robert Graves some 10-15 years ago in various bookstores but I thought I would not read it since it looked formidable to me. I knew he graduated from Oxford and was a captain in World War I, therefore, he witnessed lots of sad episodes and fallen soldiers. He was a Greek scholar and wrote famous novels like, 'I, Claudius,''Claudius the God' and 'Count Belisarius'. However, I decided to read this autobiography few years ago and found it readable and amazing. His writing style is unique, I mean you can learn from his words revealing humility and sense of humour. In a word, he was of course embittered from the Great War but he kept on writing and living with his wife in Marjorca (east of Spain) since 1929.
My note written on page 347: Great prose and lots of wonderful phrases and words and sense of humour. A great man of letters and valour."
"I was a little disappointed by this book. Graves went through a lot of detail about his childhood, education, and his circle of poetry friends when all I really wanted to hear about was trench warfare/WWI. I never got a good sense of what he did in the war itself, other than ramblings about the different divisions of the British military. He would say things like "I was sent to comand so & so" but he didn't go into detail of what this actually entailed. All in all, the book didn't meet my expectations, but because it is considered a classic of WWI literature, I'm still glad I read it."
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