Author: Robert Graves
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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The life of Sergeant Roger Lamb, a young Dubliner who had served the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the American War of Independence was the subject of a novelistic enterprise originally published in two parts because of war time paper shortages. The final result is a pair of picaresque novels concerned with the passions and frustrations of a distant war which mirrored many of Graves' own feelings for World War II which was happening around him. As an account of the struggle for independence, the horrors and excitements of war, the two novels were well reviewed and popular when published in the early 1940s. This chance to have both parts of what Graves considered to be a single project in one volume offers the opportunity of access to a literary and historical creation which both opens up the world of the American War of Independence, and the creative life and mind of a great writer of the 20th century.

Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795336918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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The author of I, Claudius “recounts, in faithful and nicely atmospheric detail” the story of a British soldier during the American Revolution (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The first in a two-book series, Sergeant Lamb’s America tells the story of Sgt. Roger Lamb, an Irish soldier who served on the British side during the American War of Independence. Based on real historical events and people, Sergeant Lamb recounts the British defeat and the capture of his unit at the Battle of Saratoga in a voice that’s both funny, insightful, and wise. This fictionalized account is based on the journals of the historical Sergeant Roger Lamb, and is largely faithful to the true eyewitness account of the American Revolution told from the loser’s perspective. With his engaging, personable voice and basic decency of character, Sergeant Lamb reminds us that regardless of how history casts the British side, there were good men on both sides of this important conflict. “It is a historical novel for which one has a very real respect.” —The New York Times

Author: Roger Lamb
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: Robert Graves
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Susan Treggiari
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192564641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship; she herself married twice, but both husbands were mediocre. Nevertheless, her position in the ruling class still afforded her significant social and political power, and it is likely that she masterminded the distinguished marriages of her one son, Brutus, and her three daughters. During her second marriage she began an affair with Iulius Caesar, which probably lasted for the rest of his life and is further indicative of the force of her charm and her exceptional intelligence. The patchiness of the sources means that a full biography is impossible, though in suggesting connections between the available evidence and the speculative possibilities open to women of Servilia's status this volume aims to offer an insightful reconstruction of her life and position both as a member of the senatorial nobility and within her extended and nuclear family. The best attested period of Servilia's life, for which the chief source is Cicero's letters, follows the murder of Caesar by her son and her son-in-law, Cassius, who were leaders among the crowd of conspirators in the Senate House on the Ides of March in 44 BC. We find her energetically working to protect the assassins' interests, also defending her grandchildren by the Caesarian Lepidus when he was declared a public enemy and his property threatened with confiscation. Exploring the role she played during these turbulent years of the late Republic reveals much about the ways in which Romans of both sexes exerted influence and sought to control outcomes, as well as about the place of women in high society, allowing us to conclude that Servilia wielded her social and political power effectively, though with discretion and within conventional limits.

Author: Stanley Gibbons
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788039777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The story starts in April 1937 when Stanley entered the Prep. Dept. of the old established grammar school, King Edward 6th School. The clouds of war were gathering in 1937 as the community was recovering from the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The war clouds broke as he entered the Main School in September 1939. When the war ended Stanley was starting his second year in the Sixth Form. In writing his story of these years Stanley has tried to portray events and experiences so that his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren may have a glimpse of the life that many lived in those traumatic years. The story is framed by School Terms. The development and progress of the War, itemized in summary, was the ever-present and dominant factor in everyones lives.

Author: Alisdair G. G. Gibson
Publisher: Classical Presences
ISBN: 0198738056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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Author: Ralf Schneider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110422468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.