All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (SparkNotes Literature Guide) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1411403622 ISBN 13: 9781411403628

Publisher: SparkNotes, 2008

Synopsis

SparkNotes Literature Guides is an invaluable series tackling some of the most important novels ever written and studied. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, these indispensable study aids are thorough and informative. They feature explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, detailed analyses of major characters and important quotes, plot summaries and analysis, an exploration of historical context, plus key facts and potential essay topics everything a student needs to be thoroughly prepared.

About this title

Review:

'Remarque has written quite the most extraordinary book I have ever read...poetic and lyrical prose...un-putdown-able and I highly recommend it'.
-- www.bfkbooks.com

'this harrowing narrative is unexpectedly beautiful, more pensive than angry' -- Irish Times, Eileen Battersby

About the Author:

Erich Maria Remarque was born in 1899. He fought and was injured in the trenches in the First World War when he was eighteen years old. He was exiled and his works were burnt by the Nazis. He lived in America and Switzerland and married and divorced his first wife twice before marrying the celebrated Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard. He published several novels after All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous of which is The Road Back. He died in 1970.

Brian Murdoch was born in 1944. He is Professor of German at Stirling University.

About this edition

• Publisher: SparkNotes
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1411403622
• ISBN 13: 9781411403628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86
• Editor: SparkNotes Editors