Erich Maria Remarque

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born

June 22, 1898 in Osnabrück, Germany

died

September 25, 1970

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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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Average rating: 3.80 · 61,391 ratings · 2,377 reviews · 62 distinct works

	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, A.W. Wheen (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 53,767 ratings — published 1929 — 133 editions	My rating:
	Three Comrades 4.38 avg rating — 1,731 ratings — published 1936 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Arch of Triumph 4.30 avg rating — 1,387 ratings — published 1945 — 34 editions	My rating:
	The Black Obelisk 4.24 avg rating — 930 ratings — published 1956 — 31 editions	My rating:
	Time To Love And A Time To Die 4.27 avg rating — 778 ratings — published 1954 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque, Ralph Manheim 4.09 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 1962 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Heaven Has No Favorites 4.17 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1959 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Road Back 4.32 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1931 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Spark of Life 4.25 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1952 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Shadows in Paradise 4.07 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1972 — 17 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. ”
― Erich Maria Remarque

tags: arch-of-triumph

62 people liked it

“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."
-All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 10”
― Erich Maria Remarque

tags: war , ww1

60 people liked it

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

tags: romance

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