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Goodbye to All That and Other Great War WritingsRobert GravesEdited by Steven Trout![]()
Categories: 20th Century, British, War writings
Imprint: Carcanet Fiction Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (404 pages) (Pub. Dec 2007) 9781857546651 Out of Stock
This volume brings together all three of Robert Graves's most significant prose writings on the meaning of the Great War: the original 1929 edition of Good-bye to All That, the essay 'A Postscript to Good-bye to All That' (1930), and the play But It Still Goes On (1930). These last two works, which have been long out of print, provide an invaluable context for Graves's classic autobiography. The 'Postscript', Graves's reflections on the nature of personal literature written about the Great War, is a fascinating complement to Good-bye to All That, illuminating Graves's own stance in his war memoir. But It Still Goes On, a play too controversial to be staged in the 1930s, explores the cultural and emotional wasteland of postwar England. Steven Trout's detailed introduction places all three works within their cultural and biographical context and, in particular, explores the complexities of the truth claims and dark humour in Graves's account of his experiences on the Western Front.
This is the only edition of Graves's work to present the original 1929 text of Good-bye to All That alongside 'A Postscript' and But It Still Goes On, making available crucial texts for any Graves scholar or student of First World War literature.
Introduction by Steven Trout ix
Works Cited xxxii GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT Chapter I 1 Chapter II 12 Chapter III 19 Chapter IV 23 Chapter V 28 Chapter VI 33 Chapter VII 37 Chapter VIII 42 Chapter IX 52 Chapter X 57 Chapter XI 68 Chapter XII 74 Chapter XIII 85 Chapter XIV 94 Chapter XV 109 Chapter XVI 127 Chapter XVII 138 Chapter XVIII 146 Chapter XIX 152 Chapter XX 157 Chapter XXI 170 Chapter XXII 179 Chapter XXIII 185 Chapter XXIV 192 Chapter XXV 201 Chapter XXVI 211 Chapter XXVII 220 Chapter XXVIII 228 Chapter XXIX 238 Chapter XXX 247 Chapter XXXI 253 Chapter XXXII 260 Dedicatory Epilogue to Laura Riding 273 Act I 307 Act II 332 Act III 354 Cuinchy brick-stacks seen from a British trench on the Givenchy canal-bank. The white placarded brick-stack is in the British support line; the ones beyond are held by the Germans. The village of Auchy is seen in the distance. Maps Somme Trench Map – TheFricourt Sector, 1916. This map fits against the map on page 159 Somme Trench Map – MametzWood and High Wood, 1916. This map fits against the map on page 149 Various Records, mostly self-explanatory. The Court of Enquiry mentioned in the bottom left-hand message was to decide whether the wound of a man in the Public Schools Battalion – a rifle shot through his foot – was self-inflicted or accidental. It was self-inflicted. B. Echelon meant the part of the battalion not in the trenches. Idol was the code-name for the Second Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The notebook leaf is the end of my 1915 diary only three weeks after I began it; I used my letters home as a diary after that. The message about Sergeant Varcoe was from Captain Samsom shortly before his death; I was temporarily attached to his company. 1929, The Second Battalion the Royal Welch Fusiliers back to pre-war soldiering. The regimental Royal goat, the regimental goat-major and the regimental pioneers (wearing white leather aprons and gauntlets – a special regimental privilege) on church parade at Wiesbaden on the Rhine. The band follows, regimentally. The goat has a regimental number and draws rations like a private soldier, ‘some speak of Alexander, and some of Hercules…’
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