Erich Maria Remarque
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born
June 22, 1898
died
September 25, 1970
place of birth
Osnabrück, Germany
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Erich Maria Remarque is one of the best known and most widely read authors of German literature in the twentieth century.
Remarque's biography is essentially marked and his writing fundamentally influenced by German history of the twentieth century: Childhood and youth in imperial Osnabrück, World War I, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exile in Switzerland and the United States. With the novel All Quiet On the Western Front, first published in 1929, Remarque attained world-wide recognition continuing today.
Examples of his other novels also internationally published are: The Road Back (1931), Three Comrades (1936, 38), Arch of Triumph (1945), The Black Obelisk (1956), and Night in Lisbon (1962).
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, A.W. Wheen avg rating 3.75 — 15,077 ratings — published 1928 97 editions |
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Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.44 — 348 ratings — published 1937 14 editions |
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Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.28 — 270 ratings — published 1945 16 editions |
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.30 — 187 ratings — published 1954 14 editions |
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Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.14 — 183 ratings — published 1956 17 editions |
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The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 3.99 — 176 ratings — published 1962 13 editions |
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Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.25 — 87 ratings — published 1959 9 editions |
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Shadows in Paradise by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.00 — 89 ratings — published 2000 10 editions |
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The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.25 — 77 ratings — published 1931 6 editions |
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Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque avg rating 4.15 — 75 ratings — published 1988 9 editions |
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"It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men."
— Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
— Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
""We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war."
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5"
— Erich Maria Remarque
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5"
— Erich Maria Remarque
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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?
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 9
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— Erich Maria Remarque
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 9
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— Erich Maria Remarque
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