This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves`s vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a... Zobraziť viac
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy... Zobraziť viac
In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's... Zobraziť viac
The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet's daughter Lucia Graves. Zobraziť viac
Bringing 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... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose... Zobraziť viac
Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find... Zobraziť viac
Published by Penguin for more than sixty years, the author and scholar Robert Graves wrote two of the greatest historical... Zobraziť viac
No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... Zobraziť viac
