Robert Graves

In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.

Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars....

T. E. Lawrence began his lifelong affair with the Middle East as a student at Oxford, taking a four-month walking tour of Syria to study the Crusaders' castles....

Robert Graves continues Claudius⿿ story with the epic adulteries of Messalina, King Herod Agrippa⿿s betrayal of his old friend, and the final arrival of that bloodthirsty teenager, Nero....

This famous sequel to I, Claudius gives a wry and human view of the Roman world, bringing to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history....

The politics of empire-building and the hypocricies, back-stabbings and corruptions of Rome's first family come to light....

A full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome....

A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches....

Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works....

Zio di Caligola, marito dell'infedele Messalina, padre adottivo e vittima di Nerone, l'imperatore Claudio inizia così il racconto della sua vita, scritto proprio di suo pugno, e non affidato, com'era costume a quei tempi, a un oscuro segretario o a un annalista adulatore...

The poems in this collection, "Fairies and Fusiliers", appeared in 1918, after Robert Graves returned from World War I in his early 20s. The fairy poems are from the carefree happy days of childhood and make-believe recalled by a man who has lived the reality and horror of war....

Robert Graves' account of a man affected with an unfortunate capacity for thoughtless kleptomania, and with another minor fault which led to a somewhat unusual sort of punishment....