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All Quiet on the Western Front

A Novel
By Erich Maria Remarque
Series: All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front presents the harrowing journey of Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier in World War I. Enthusiastic at enlistment, Paul soon faces the brutal reality of trench warfare, witnessing despair, death, and the collapse of youthful ideals. The novel is a powerful testament against the futility of war and the destructive hate it breeds among peers on opposite sides.
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The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war.

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The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.

“[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank.”—The New York Times Book Review

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another... if only he can come out of the war alive.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780449911495

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 1996

Country: United States

Imprint: Fawcett

Contributors:

  • Translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 193g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Erich Maria Remarque, who was born in Germany, was drafted into the German army during World War I. Through the hazardous years following the war he worked at many occupations: schoolteacher, small-town drama critic, race-car driver, editor of a sports magazine. His first novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, was published in Germany in 1928. A brilliant success, selling more than a million copies, it was the first of many literary triumphs. When the Nazis came to power, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland. He rejected all attempts to persuade him to return, and as a result he lost his German citizenship, his books were burned, and his films banned. He went to the United States in 1938 and became a citizen in 1947. He later lived in Switzerland with his second wife, the actress Paulette Goddard. He died in September 1970.

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