Pagine1898–1970 · Osnabrück, Germany · also known as Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was drafted into the German army at 18 and wounded on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), the story of young soldier Paul Bäumer and his classmates, became one of the best-selling and most influential anti-war novels ever written. The Nazis burned his books and stripped him of his citizenship; he lived in exile in Switzerland and the US.
Begin with All Quiet on the Western Front.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Friedrich Schiller · Brothers Grimm · E. T. A. Hoffmann · Theodor Fontane · Thomas Mann · Franz Kafka · Hermann Hesse
Erich Maria Remarque was drafted into the German army at 18 and wounded on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), the story of young soldier Paul Bäumer and his classmates, became one of the best-selling and most influential anti-war novels ever written.
All Quiet on the Western Front is usually considered Erich Maria Remarque’s best-known work, followed by The Road Back, Three Comrades.
Most readers start with All Quiet on the Western Front.
Both refer to the same writer.
Many of Erich Maria Remarque’s works are in the public domain; we link to free editions below.