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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography Paperback - 1957

by Robert Graves Paul Fussell

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Graves' classic 1929 autobiography with its searing account of life in the trenches of the First World War has been re-published with the original 1929 text on the occasion of Graves' 100th anniversary.

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Anchor Books, 1957. Paperback. New. 2nd revised edition. 352 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches.
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  • Title Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
  • Author Robert Graves Paul Fussell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Revised
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York
  • Date 1957
  • Bookseller's Inventory # __0385093306
  • ISBN 9780385093309 / 0385093306
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.94 x 5.28 x 0.98 in (20.17 x 13.41 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century, Authors, English - 20th century - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 57012294
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the jacket flap

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 way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, this dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes on to depict the horrors and disillusionment of the Great War, from life in the trenches and the loss of dear friends, to the stupidity of government bureaucracy and the absurdity of English class stratification. Paul Fussell has hailed it as ""the best memoir of the First World War"" and has written the introduction to this new edition that marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war. An enormous success when it was first issued, it continues to find new readers in the thousands each year and has earned its designation as a true classic.

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  • Library Journal, 11/01/2013, Page 54

About the author

Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, and critic. His first volume of poems, Over the Brazier (1916), reflects his experiences in the trenches, and was followed by many works of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He is best known for his novel, I, Claudius (1934), which won the Hawthornden and James Tait Black Memorial prizes, and for his influential The White Goddess (1948).

Paul Fussell is the author of 15 books, including Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War and The Great War and Modern Memory, which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named by the Modern Library as one of the twentieth century's 100 best nonfiction books. He taught literature for many years at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife.

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