Robert Graves

"There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . ." In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. They were to haunt him for the rest of his life.

"Helt siden jeg var femten år gammel, har lidenskapen for poesi styrt mitt liv, og jeg har aldri, med vitende og vilje, foretatt meg noe, eller inngått noe forhold, som syntes å være i strid med poetiske prinsipper. På grunn av dette har jeg ofte fått rykte for å være en eksentriker." - Robert Graves I Robrt Graves' poesi møter vi eksentrikeren på hans egne premisser. Her lyder en stemme som er autoritativ og stødig, og hvis poetiske tale gjenspeiler individets mangfoldige fasetter. I denne første fyldige presentasjonen av Graves' dikt på norsk, er det lagt vekt på å vise bredden i dette bemerkelsesverdige forfatterskapet. Her kan leseren fordype seg i den samme unike blanding av det personlige og det mytiske, det konsise og det fabulerende, som har øvd innflytelse på flere viktige poetiske stemmer i det 20. århundre - blant annet W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes og Bob Dylan.

A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. "The long week-end" is the authors' evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. From a postwar period of prosperity and frivolity through the ever-darkening decade of the thirties, The Long Week-End deftly and movingly preserves the details and captures the spirit of the time.

In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, this dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes on to depict the horrors and disillusionment of the Great War, from life in the trenches and the loss of dear friends, to the stupidity of government bureaucracy and the absurdity of English class stratification. Paul Fussell has hailed it as ""the best memoir of the First World War"" and has written the introduction to this new edition that marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war. An enormous success when it was first issued, it continues to find new readers in the thousands each year and has earned its designation as a true classic.