Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
I, CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD are an imaginative and hugely
readable account of the early decades of the Roman Empire ... racy,
inventive, often comic
*Daily Telegraph*
One of the really remarkable books of our day, a novel of learning
and imagination, fortunately conceived and brilliantly executed
*New York Times*
Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical
fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of
imagination
*Hilary Mantel*
I, CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD are an imaginative and hugely
readable account of the early decades of the Roman Empire ... racy,
inventive, often comic * Daily Telegraph *
One of the really remarkable books of our day, a novel of learning
and imagination, fortunately conceived and brilliantly executed *
New York Times *
Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical
fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of
imagination -- Hilary Mantel
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