Robert Graves: Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] mass_market ZDIY The Garden of Perfect Brightness

The Garden of Perfect Brightness

This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel

One of my favourites of the year

while it stands in its own right

Robert Graves: Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] mass_market ZDIY The Garden of Perfect Brightness"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing." This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly