The long weekend : a social history of Great Britain 1918-1939
Subtitle: and, The reader over your shoulder : a handbook for writers of English prose
By: Robert Graves and Alan Hodge ; with an introduction by Jane Aiken Hodge
Contributors: Hodge, Alan, 1915-; Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
Series: Robert Graves programme
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Manchester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 848
ISBN-13: 9781857546644
Subjects: English prose literature -- History and criticism; English language -- Style; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
Description: From the Publisher: This contemporary edition makes available two of Graves's pieces of non-fiction that have not been widely available since their original printing during the 1940s. In addition to the original text, this volume includes a substantial introduction that provides background information and literary criticism. The volume will be of use to students studying Graves as well as to scholars seeking both clean and durable editions of these previously obscure texts and analytical commentary from a literary scholar. As a companion piece to Graves's famous autobiography Goodbye to All That, this volume gives a broader perspective on the writer's understanding of WWI, its impact on English culture and his views on contemporary writing in England.
Notes: "The long weekend first published by Faber and Faber in 1940; The reader over your shoulder first published Jonathan Cape in 1943"--T.p. verso

Includes index