ISBN |
9780099532811 (paperback) |
Name |
Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970 author. |
Uniform title |
Im Westen nichts Neues. English |
Title |
All quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque ; translated from the German by Brian Murdoch ; afterword by Brian Murdoch. |
Published |
London : Vintage, 1996. |
Description |
216 pages ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
This translation originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. |
Translated from the German: Im Westen nichts Neues. |
First published 1929. |
Includes bibliographical references (page 216) |
Summary |
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches. |
Language note |
English. |
Subjects |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction |
Genre |
War fiction |
Other Names |
Murdoch, Brian., 1944- translator, writer of afterword, colophon, etc. |
Series |
Vintage classics |
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