Modern Classics Goodbye To All That

Robert Graves's autobiographical memoir is a candid and powerful account of his life up until his 'bitter leave-taking' of England in 1929, a vow never to make it his home again. The book chronicles his upper-middle-class childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, but its central and most famous focus is his harrowing service as a young officer in the First World War. Graves provides vivid and often unsentimental descriptions of the Western Front and the psychological trauma (neurasthenia) he endured, establishing the work as a classic war document. It also includes his early married life and encounters with fellow writers, such as Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, serving as a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy and a candid self-portrait of an artist.

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