A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That"

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781375380638

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That"

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410347109

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (Book Analysis)

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (Book Analysis)
Author: Bright Summaries
Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 2808015852

Unlock the more straightforward side of Goodbye to All That with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves, an autobiographical work which spans the period from his childhood to his decision to leave England for good in the 1920s. In particular, it vividly depicts his experiences as an officer during the First World War, during which he witnessed the horrors of trench warfare at first hand and forged close friendships with his fellow soldier-poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Robert Graves was an English poet, novelist and critic. As well as Goodbye to All That, he is known for his novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, which are now regarded as classic works of historical fiction. Find out everything you need to know about Goodbye to All That in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Study Guide

Study Guide
Author: Supersummary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781690619116

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 85-page guide for "Goodbye to All That" by Robert Graves includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 32 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Middle-Class British Society Before and After World War I and Soldiers' Experiences of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Good-bye to All That

Good-bye to All That
Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0141395273

"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing." This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling from the trenches. 'We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one' Andrew Motion 'One of the most candid self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted' TLS

Robert Graves

Robert Graves
Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1472929152

The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected – until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye' to 'all that'. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete.

I, Claudius

I, Claudius
Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0795336799

“One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times). Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio. “[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Goodbye to All That?

Goodbye to All That?
Author: Dan Stone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 019969771X

Shows how the anti-fascist consensus prevalent throughout Europe following World War II has been crumbling since the 1970s and how globalization, deregulation, the erosion of social-democratic welfare capitalism in the West, and the collapse of the Communist alternative in the East are leading to a social divisive, politically dangerous rise of fascism that could threaten the peace of Europe.

Birdsong

Birdsong
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2012-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307820386

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.