PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, translator, and author of more than 120 books of history, mythology, and fiction, including the historical novel I, Claudius and the mythological study The White Goddess. Born in England, he made his home in Majorca after 1929. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1971. Good-bye to All That is his only autobiography.
"“The best memoir of the First World War.” —Paul Fussell “One of the classic accounts of the Western Front.” —THE TIMES (London) “From the moment of its first appearance an established classic.” —THE OBSERVER (London) “One of the most candid self-portraits of a poet . . . ever painted.” —THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (London) ""Goodbye to All That is among the finest books about war that has ever been written. The cool but burning lucidity with which Graves describes the ironies--the boredom; the terror; the vertiginous swings between extreme happiness and jangling nervousness--of serving both on the front line, and behind it, are perhaps best experienced by reading the author's own words from the trenches."" --from the Introduction by Miranda Seymour"
