All Quiet on the Western Front (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Erich Maria Remarque
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: World War I
- Setting: Western front and Germany
- Principal Characters: Paul Bäumer, Kropp, Müller, Kemmerich, Tjaden, Haie Westhus, Detering, Stanislaus Katczinsky, Corporal Himmelstoss, Kantorek
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, War fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, France or French people, War, Death or dying, World War I, Corruption, Idealism, Military life or service, Soldiers, Germany or German people
- Locales: France, Germany
The Story:
Paul Bäumer was a typical German soldier in World War I. He joined up, fought, experienced the horrors and madness of war, saw his comrades killed, and was finally killed himself. He told his own story in vignettes that do not follow chronologically, until finally an outside narrator reported his death on a day when the army report said only, “All quiet on the western front.”
Bäumer and his comrades were somewhere behind the lines of the western front late in the war. They had just been relieved from a grueling stint as sappers at the front and were...
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