Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves

Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins

Author: Robert Graves

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 from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War.

Containing memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, Goodbye to All That, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.

Seven Days in New Crete

By Robert Graves

'No one else offers his precise combination of eroticism, nightmare and epigram'
Guardian

Published: 22/05/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141197678

RRP: $24.95

Wife to Mr Milton

By Robert Graves

Marie Powell is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London, but she struggles to adjust to her new life. Her husband is high-minded and unyielding, and only makes Marie long for the man she really loves. As Civil War sweeps across England and the King is killed, a battle starts to rage between husband and wife - one...

Published: 18/05/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141197500

RRP: $19.95

King Jesus

By Robert Graves

Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the perspective of a lowly official at the end of the first century AD, King Jesus recounts Jesus's birth, youth, life as a charismatic 'wonder worker' and the unorthodox, bitter...

Published: 18/05/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141197654

RRP: $19.95

The Golden Fleece

By Robert Graves

In order to reclaim his father's kingdom, Jason has been sent on an impossible mission - to take the golden ram's fleece that lies far away, guarded by a dragon. Jason, who is so attractive that women fall instantly in love with him, sets sail in the Argo, along with the greatest heroes of ancient Greece, including the surly (and often drunk) Hercules, the enchanting musician Orpheus and the battling...

Published: 18/05/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141197647

RRP: $19.95

Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

By Robert Graves

'Among the most generous, self-willed, unseemly and brilliant writers of our century'
The New York Times

Published: 18/05/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141197685

RRP: $24.95

Homer's Daughter

By Robert Graves

In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father's throne from usurpation, herself...

Published: 17/05/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141197661

RRP: $24.95

I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

By Robert Graves

Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties.

Published: 29/08/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143566397

RRP: $9.95

The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition

By Robert Graves

'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no longer see Icarus; but scattered feathers floated on the waves below . . . '

Published: 06/07/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952740

RRP: $35.00

Complete Short Stories

By Robert Graves

In this complete collection of his short fiction, Robert Graves demonstrates his incredible range, from the descriptions of an unhappy life at boarding school in 'The Abominable Mr Gunn", to the evocative Majorcan tales of 'Esta en su Casa' and 'The Lost Chinese'. Also here are the charming letters of young Margaret in '6 Valiant Bulls 6', the autobiographical war story of 'Christmas Truce', and...

Published: 04/08/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141189451

RRP: $26.95

Count Belisarius

By Robert Graves

The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a decadent era.

Published: 31/08/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188133

RRP: $24.95

Claudius the God

By Robert Graves

Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of absolute power and the infidelity...

Published: 31/08/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141188607

RRP: $24.95

The Collected Poems

By Robert Graves

One of the most remarkable writers of the twentieth century, Robert Graves published more than a thousand poems over some seventy years. Primarily known for his love poetry, Graves combined irony with passion, the intensely personal with the universe, inspired by his Muses – the White and Black Goddesses. But there are also works of harsh realism, written after his traumatic experience in the...

Published: 14/07/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141182063

RRP: $40.00