| All Quiet on the Western Front Bound for Schoo Edition Contributor(s): Remarque, Erich Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 0606320865 ISBN-13: 9780606320863 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $28.35 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: September 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96096745 |
| Lexile Measure: 830 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 5.52" W x 8.15" (0.81 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, "All Quiet on the Western Front" is Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I. "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 Baumer, 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. "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" |