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Good-Bye to All That provides a detailed description of trench warfare, including the tragic incompetence of the Battle of Loos, including the use of gas, and the bitter fighting in the first phase of the Somme Offensive.
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Good-Bye to All That, autobiography by Robert Graves, published in 1929 and revised in 1957. It is considered a classic of the disillusioned postwar generation. Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humour.
Divided into anecdotal scenes and satiric episodes, Good-Bye to All That is infused with a dark humor. It chronicles the author's experiences as a student at Charterhouse School in London and as a teenaged soldier in France during World War I, where he sustained severe wounds in combat.
- Robert Graves
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Initially published in 1929, Good-Bye to All That is the autobiography of author and poet, Robert Graves. In his introduction to the book, author and World War II veteran Paul Fussell states that this is “the best memoir of the First World War.”
Dec 9, 2020 · English. 281 pages ; 20 cm. 'Goodbye to all that' is Robert Graves' candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the World War I. Originally published: London: Cassell, 1957. Access-restricted-item.
Sep 28, 2000 · An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a...
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...
'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'...
Dec 24, 2021 · Re-reading “Goodbye to All That” today — in the era of online, shortform oversharing — it’s striking to a contemporary reader how those 1967 sentences trail on and curl over themselves, like...
Dec 22, 2010 · Two of the most touching elements of the paperback edition of Graves' famous autobiography, Good-bye to All That, are the photographs on the covers. On the front is Graves at 33: young, serious, a thick fall of hair over the forehead, the face handsome and yet somehow still unformed.
Good-Bye to All That details Graves’s life from his upper-middle-class childhood in England to his service as a military officer in World War I, and on to his first few years as a veteran. This memoir provides a candid account of military service tinged by Graves’s poetic sensibilities, and also serves as Graves’s account of his coming-of ...
Goodbye to All That Quotes Showing 1-12 of 12. “About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.”. ― Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That. tags: education , gentleman. 8 likes.
Sep 28, 2000 · 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 Graves
Goodbye to All That Lyrics. How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and and ten— Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, and back again— If your feet are nimble and light. You can get...
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.
Mar 1, 2018 · An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy.
- Robert Graves
Good-bye To All That by Graves Robert. Publication date 1929 Topics Rashtrapati Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English. Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.209039. dc.contributor.author: Graves Robert dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-09T16:06:16Z dc.date.available: 2015-07-09T16:06:16Z
Goodbye to All That is a 2014 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Angus MacLachlan in his directorial debut. It stars Paul Schneider and Melanie Lynskey.
Dec 17, 2014 · GOODBYE TO ALL THAT explores the aftermath of the abrupt dissolution of an 11-year marriage. Blind-sided, Otto Wall (Paul Schneider) receives the devastating news that his marriage is over from his wife's, Annie's, (Melanie Lysnskey), therapist (Celia Weston).
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