All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Erich Maria Remarque
Genre : Fiction
Editor : Random House
ISBN : 9780812985535
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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.


All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Erich Maria Remarque
Genre : Fiction
Editor : Everyman's Library
ISBN : 9781101908082
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A hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time—featuring an Introduction by historian Norman Stone. Soon to be Netflix Film. When twenty-year-old Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of 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. Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants' physical and mental trauma, but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home. Remarque's stated intention--"to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war"--remains as powerful and relevant as ever, a century after that conflict's end.


All Quiet On The Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque

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Author by Brian Murdoch
Genre : Germany
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ISBN : 1587657198
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Edited and with an introduction by Brian Murdoch, Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Stirling in Scotland, this volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a wide variety of introductory and in-depth essays on Remarque's classic war novel.


All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Erich Maria Remarque
Genre : World War, 1914-1918
Editor : CreateSpace
ISBN : 1441482652
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All Quiet On The Western Front written by legendary author Erich Maria Remarque is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, All Quiet On The Western Front is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless piees of classic literature, this gem by Erich Maria Remarque is highly recommended. Published by Classic House Books and beautifully produced, All Quiet On The Western Front would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.


All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Erich Maria Remarque
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ISBN : 1841593869
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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 Western Front he tells their story. A few years after it was published in 1929 the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare. Remarque has an extraordinary power of describing fear: the appalling tension of being holed up in a dugout under heavy bombardment; the animal instinct to kill or be killed which takes over during hand-to-hand combat. He also has an eye for the grimly comic: the consignment of coffins Paul and his friends pass as they make their way up the line for a new offensive; the young soldiers joyfully tucking into double rations when half their company are unexpectedly wiped out. Remarque's elegy for a sacrificed generation is all the more devastating for the laconic prose in which his teenaged veteran narrates shocking experiences which for him have become the stuff of daily life. Paul cannot imagine a life after the war and can no longer relate to his family when he returns home on leave. Only the camaraderie of his diminishing circle of friends has any meaning for him. He comes especially to depend on an older comrade, Stanislaus Katczinsky, and one of the most poignant moments in the book is when he carries the wounded Kat on his back under fire to the field dressing station, with starkly tragic outcome. The saddest and most compelling war story ever written.


All Quiet On The Western Front

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Genre : All quiet on the Western front (Motion picture)
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ISBN : 1417560835
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File Pages : 212
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Erich Maria Remarque S All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Harold Bloom
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Editor : Infobase Publishing
ISBN : 9781604134025
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Contains nine critical essays that analyze various aspects of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," and includes a chronology of Remarque's life and works.


All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Erich Maria Remarque
Genre : War stories
Editor : Crw Publishing
ISBN : 1907360670
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This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts. Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body. They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Award.


All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Erich Maria Remarque
Genre : World War, 1914-1918
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ISBN : 0972976566
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File Pages : 397
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Filming All Quiet On The Western Front

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Author by Andrew Kelly
Genre : Performing Arts
Editor : I.B. Tauris
ISBN : 1860643612
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Published to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front", this is an account of the making of the Academy Award-winning film of the novel. When it first appeared in 1928, the book transformed the popular image of war; the film, directed by Lewis Milestone, was released the following year and was instantly acclaimed as a classic. It remains the quintessential view of World War I and of the brutality and waste of war. Like the novel, however, it suffered censorship internationally: it was banned in Italy, and in Germany following violent protests, and cut elsewhere, including Hollywood. This account covers the film's origins and production, and its fortunes on and after release. The author's five years of research included visits to archives around the world, viewings of all extant versions of the film, and interviews with people involved in its production. The book is illustrated with scenes from the film and contains extensive extracts from the screenplays.