All Quiet on the Western Front | All Quiet on the Western Front

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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...

All Quiet on the Western Front | All Quiet on the Western Front

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