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Goodbye to all that

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"The objects of this autobiography, written at the age of thirty-three, are simple enough: an opportunity for a formal good-bye to you and to you and to you and to me and to all that; forgetfulness, because once all this has been settled in my mind and written down and published it need never be thought about again; money.".

Thus begins Robert Graves's classic 1929 autobiography with its searing account of life in the trenches of the First World War; and yet this opening passage, together with much significant material, has been unavailable since 1957, when a middle-aged Graves totally revised his text, robbing it of the painfully raw edge that had helped to make it an international bestseller. By 1957 major changes in his private life had taken place.

Graves was no longer living with the American poet Laura Riding, under whose influence and in whose honor the original had been written. By cutting out all references to Riding, by deleting passages which revealed the mental strains under which he had labored, and by meticulously editing the entire text, Graves destroyed most of what had made it so powerful but also removed it from the only context in which it could be fully understood.

We are pleased to offer the original 1929 edition on the occasion of Graves's 100th anniversary, edited and annotated by Robert Graves's nephew and biographer, whose lucid introduction greatly enhances its value.

Publish Date
Publisher
Cassell
Language
English
Pages
306

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Good-bye to all that
Good-bye to all that: an autobiography
1995, Berghahn Books
in English
Cover of: Good-bye to all that
Good-bye to all that
1990, Doubleday
in English - New ed., rev., with a prologue and an epilogue, rev. 2nd ed.
Cover of: Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That : Autobiography in WW I
1969, Penguin, Penguin Classic
Cover of: Goodbye to all that
Goodbye to all that
1966, Cassell
in English - 4th ed.
Cover of: Goodbye to all that
Goodbye to all that
1960, Penguin
in English - Rev. ed. / with a new prologue and epilogue.

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Edition Notes

Published in
London
Genre
Biography., Personal narratives, British.
Other Titles
Good-bye to all that

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6013.R35 Z5 1957b

The Physical Object

Pagination
v, 306 p. ;
Number of pages
306

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16486457M
Internet Archive
goodbyetoallthat0000grav_d1z5
ISBN 10
0304921114
Library Thing
27768
Goodreads
3411290

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