A Banquet of the Gods

From Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault to Hannah Arendt and Virginia Woolf, the iconic Pelican imprint has published some of the most important thinkers of the past century since it was launched in 1937. Now the new Pelican Archive series brings together an eclectic range of thirty little books – on zen Buddhism, critical theory, agenda-setting politics, birdwatching and more – selected from the best of the imprint’s nine decades of publishing.

About Robert Graves

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.
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