All Quiet on the Western Front
$32.01
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2018
Summary
As the centenary of the 1918 Armistice approaches, a hardcover edition of the most famous novel to come out of World War I, drawing on the author’s personal experience of trench warfare as a young conscript in the German army.
In 1914 Paul Bäumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593869 |
| Author: | Erich Maria Remarque, Brian Murdoch, Norman Stone |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure. * The New York Times Book Review *All Quiet is that rare thing, a work of popular modernism. * Independent *
About The Author
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author and veteran of the First World War. He was born in 1898 in Osnabrück, Germany. At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the German army. During his service he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm, and neck. Following the war, he worked as a primary school teacher, and later as a librarian, a journalist, and a technical writer.
Among Remarque’s published novels were All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back, Three Comrades, and Arch of Triumph. His works were publicly burned by the Nazi German government, and in 1947 he and his first wife became naturalised citizens of the United States. Four years earlier, his sister had been executed at the behest of Hitler’s ‘People’s Court’.
Remarque adapted the book Ten Days to Die, about Hitler’s final days, as a screenplay, and he also wrote for the stage. His last novel was The Night in Lisbon, published in 1962. During his lifetime Remarque married twice and had love affairs with the actresses Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo.
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