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Erich Maria Remarque

Born

in Osnabrück, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

June 22, 1898

Died

September 25, 1970

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

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Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 700,132 ratings · 31,715 reviews · 209 distinct works • Similar authors

	All Quiet on the Western Front 4.11 avg rating — 520,059 ratings — published 1928 — 1125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Comrades 4.48 avg rating — 39,128 ratings — published 1936 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country 4.43 avg rating — 31,374 ratings — published 1945 — 283 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night in Lisbon 4.33 avg rating — 24,780 ratings — published 1961 — 204 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, Denver Lindley (Translator) 4.38 avg rating — 15,781 ratings — published 1956 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Time to Love and a Time to Die 4.44 avg rating — 15,336 ratings — published 1954 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque, Clara Winston (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 15,494 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road Back 4.34 avg rating — 10,229 ratings — published 1931 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque, James Stern (translator) 4.53 avg rating — 6,754 ratings — published 1952 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows in Paradise 4.16 avg rating — 5,653 ratings — published 1971 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back (3 books)
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Erich Maria Remarque,

Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)

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Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque (?)

“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. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

tags: war, ww1

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“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

tags: romance

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“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony--Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

tags: war

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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 17.7%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

22 votes, 15.6%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

16 votes, 11.3%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

14 votes, 9.9%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 9.2%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.8%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.7%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 5.0%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

6 votes, 4.3%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

141 total votes

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