Goodbye to All That

Resumen del libro

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 and 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 and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and 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, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.

Biografía del autor

Robert Graves es uno de los escritores británicos más importantes del siglo XX. Poeta, novelista y ensayista, nació en Londres en 1895 y murió en Deià (Mallorca), tras pasar allí dos tercios de su vida, en 1985. Publicó su primer libro de poesía a los 21 años, convaleciente de las heridas recibidas en la batalla del Somme, donde lo dieron por muerto. Fue catedrático de poesía en la universidad de Oxford, editor y autor de novelas como "Yo, Claudio", o "El conde Belisario" y ensayos como "La Diosa Blanca", "Los mitos hebreos" y "Los mitos griegos", todos ellos publicados en Alianza Editorial.