Dramatisations of selected novels and short stories by the acclaimed Robert GravesAn acclaimed poet and novelist, Robert Graves is best remembered today for his immensely popular I, Claudius novels. He penned over 140 works in his lifetime, ranging from historical fiction to comic and supernatural tales, and the variety and breadth of his writing is exemplified in this diverse collection.Immerse yourself in the intrigues and debaucheries of Imperia...

Fairies and Fusiliers captures Robert Graves at his most combative and inventive, where trench warfare collides with classical myth, fairy tale, and sharp-edged wit. Across these poems, soldiers, critics, saints, children, and legendary figures share the page in a voice that is defiant, ironic, and deeply humane. Graves rejects fashionable "newness" in art, defending old forms, plain speech, and the living force of imagination even as war, death, and memory press in. The collection moves f...

Whipperginny is a richly varied collection in which Robert Graves moves from myth and satire to lyric intimacy, philosophical wit, and dreamlike vision. Across its shifting moods, the poems register war neurosis, childhood memory, love's contradictions, and a growing turn toward detachment, religion, psychology, and self-knowledge. The title sequence opens a landscape of imaginative play and emotional distance, where card games, battlefield echoes, folklore, and symbolic creatures such as ...

Robert Graves's portrait of T. E. Lawrence opens with a promise of candor: not a legend of "Lawrence of Arabia," but an exact, readable account of a fiercely private man and the turbulent world he moved through. With maps, illustrations, and a measured introduction, Graves frames Lawrence as an elusive figure shaped by mixed ancestry, a strong-willed mother, an all-male household, and a restless childhood spent across Britain and France. From an early obsession with archaeology, medieval r...

A powerful memoir of war, youth, and disillusionment, Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves is one of the finest autobiographies of the twentieth century. Drawing from his personal experiences during the First World War, Graves offers an honest, moving, and often deeply reflective account of life before, during, and after the conflict. Combining vivid storytelling with historical insight, this enduring classic provides a remarkable portrait of a generation forever changed by war. What Makes...

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The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths'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...'These are the greatest stories ever told - the labours of Hercules, the voyage of the Argona...

Continuing the saga begun in I, Claudius, Robert Graves's Claudius the God is a compelling fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor, published with an introduction by Barry Unsworth in Penguin Modern Classics.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 C...

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 up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, a...

A searing farewell to innocence, Goodbye to All That is Robert Graves’s unflinching, unforgettable memoir of youth, war, and disillusionment. Written in the aftermath of World War I, this literary classic begins with Graves’s idyllic childhood in Victorian England and follows him through the brutal trenches of the Western Front, where he served as a young officer. With clarity and biting wit, Graves exposes the absurdities of military life, the horrors of modern warfare, and the cultural c...

**'Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of imagination' Hilary MantelBringing to life the intrigue of ancient Rome, Robert Graves's I, Claudius is one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written**Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the bloody purges and mounting cruel...

I, Claudius is Robert Graves' riveting account of Ancient Rome in all its madness and debauchery. First published in 1934, and written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, it endures as one of literature's most celebrated and compelling historical novels.Abhorred by his weakness and viewed by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the cruelties, bloody purges and intrigues of the imperial Roman dynasties. From the sidelines he obs...