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King Jesus by Robert Graves
Category: Fiction
Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here Jesus is not the son of God, but the result of a secret marriage - the descendant of Herod and true King of the Jews. Written from the perspective of a lowly official at the end of the first century AD, King ...Show more
Lars Porsena, or the Future of Swearing by Robert Graves
Category: Fiction
Robert Graves' tongue-in-cheek treatise laments the decline of swearing and foul language in England and looks back with nostalgia at the glory days of oaths and blasphemies.Written when Graves was teaching at Cairo University in 1926, a time when censorship in England was still in full sway, "Lars Pors ...Show more
Lawrence and the Arabs by Robert Graves; Dale Maharidge (Introduction by)
Category: History
The story of the Middle East in the early 20th century--through the eyes of two of that period's greatest Englishmen--Robert Graves and Lawrence of Arabia. "Brilliant and provocative."--The New York Times Beginning his life-long affair with the Middle East, T.E. Lawrence--Lawrence of Arabia--mad ...Show more
Robert Graves by Robert Graves
Category: Audio Books
Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres - producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism - but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts that span more than 30 years, this CD presents a select ...Show more
Selected Poems by Robert Graves
Category: Poetry
This is a new and essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves' poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition will restore Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrate his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet, and as - in the round - a secular ...Show more
Selected Poems by Robert Graves
Category: Poetry | Series: Poets of the Great War
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 gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by l ...Show more
Selected Poems [Robert Graves] by Robert Graves Jr.
Category: Poetry
An essential selection from the range and bulk of Robert Graves's poetry, edited by Ulster poet Michael Longley. This edition restores Graves to view as a major twentieth century poet, and demonstrates his manifold achievement as war poet, as love poet, and as - in the round - a secular visionary whose ...Show more
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth by Robert Graves
Category: Fiction
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 claim to a footnote in history is that he managed to esc ...Show more
Seven Days in New Crete by Robert Graves
Category: Learning
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 life among the New Cretans rather dull. He comes to re ...Show more
THE READER OVER YOUR SHOULDER: A HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF ENGLISH PROSE by Graves, Robert;Hodge, Alan;
Category: Languages and Reference
"The best book on writing ever published" (Patricia T. O'Conner, author of Woe Is I). When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and as they l ...Show more
The Big Green Book by Robert Graves
Category: Children's
The little boy Jack discovers a big green book of magic in the attic, and learns all sorts of spells - spells to change the look of things, spells to make him old and grey, or disappear entirely! Of course I can't tell you how all these things were done, because this was a long time ago and the big gree ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Robert Graves by Robert Graves
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Robert Graves described poetry as his ruling passion and for him love was "the main theme and origin of true poems". He created a mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Combining realism and magic, his poems are considered among the finest of the 20th century. I ...Show more