Goodbye to All That

By: Robert Graves

Narrated by: Ben Allen

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing never to make England his 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, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever penned.

Public Domain (P)2025 SNR Audio

Quite British

A very good reader, British as the text requires. Good regional UK accents, but he struggles a bit with Canadian ones. Hint: oat & out sound the same in Canada.