Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics: Goodbye to All That: Introduction by Miranda Seymour (Hardcover)

from neurodrew

Robert Graves writes of his life up to 1929, when he abandoned England to live in Majorca. The core of the book is his experiences in the trenches of the Western Front, as an officer of an infantry company. He describes some of his school days, and describes the dissolution of his friendship with...

from thesmellofbooks

An odd and interesting book. It does not proceed steadily, but hops about a bit as if written at different times and sewn together (which is true for at least part of the book). This is not a problem, however. It is readable throughout, sometimes moving and sometimes fascinating, and low grade an...

from DinadansFriend

This is quite a good read, and is one of the big hits of the anti-war movement of the 1920's. Graves is also a poet and his use of the language is skilfull. If one wishes to understand the inter-war period this is the towering classic in English. Published in 1929.

from librarianbryan

Not sure why they abridged this, but it was an interesting listen while also reading Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger. Junger is more of a natural soldier. Graves was brave but perhaps more suited for literature. Martin Jarvis got all the Welsh accents right and that made my day.

from TheAmpersand

Robert Graves is known for his love poems and had an almost comically distinguished pedigree, but you wouldn't know it from reading "Goodbye to All That," his wry, bitter, plainspoken, and ultimately moving memoir of his early life and experiences in the Great War. He hated the prestigious boardi...