All quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque is a semi-autobiographical novel first published in 1928. The book follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Through his eyes, readers experience the extreme physical and mental trauma of trench warfare and the devastating detachment soldiers feel from civilian life. As Paul and his comrades endure brutal battles for meaningless scraps of land, they watch friends fall one by one, slowly losing their humanity and will to live. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970
Translator Wheen, A. W. (Arthur Wesley), 1897-1971
LoC No. 29010005
Uniform Title Im Westen nichts Neues. English
Title All quiet on the Western Front
Original Publication London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.
Note Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front
Credits Al Haines
Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Subject War stories
Category Text
eBook-No. 75011
Release Date
Last Update Jul 2, 2025
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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