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 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 & 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 & poets including Siegfried Sassoon & Thomas Hardy & 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 & also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet novelist & critic He is best known for the historical novel I Claudius & the critical study of myth & poetry The White Goddess His autobiography Goodbye to All That was published in 1929 quickly establishing itself as a modern classic Graves also translated Apuleius Lucan & Suetonius for the Penguin Classics & compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology The Greek Myths His translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin Classics If you enjoyed Goodbye to All That you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End also available in Penguin Modern Classics' His wonderful autobiography' Jeremy Paxman Daily Mail