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Caligula (Pocket Penguins 70 ) by Robert Graves
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
Claudius the God by Robert Graves; Barry Unsworth (Foreword by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Read in the style of a secret diary, this famous sequel toI, Claudiusgives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history.Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. He reco ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Robert Graves
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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.
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a st ...Show more
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War.
Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$14.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'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 is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'I ...Show more
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's 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.
Goodbye to All That (War Popular Penguin) by Robert Graves
$9.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: War Popular Penguins
In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. ...Show more
Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spir ...Show more
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In "I, Claudius", he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$14.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
Lawrence and the Arabs by Robert Graves; Dale Maharidge (Introduction by)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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