All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Literary Fiction – Audiobook

 

Novel Details

Author: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrator: Frank Muller

Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.

Length of Time: 7 hours (approx.)

Year of publication: 1928

Audiobook release: 2012

Novel Characteristics

Audiobook

Published before 1970

Brief Response

This story is a bold, raw, unabashed insight to life on the front of the first World War. Remarque’s character, Paul Baumer, is a disillusioned young man fighting for the German cause alongside his classmates. Through Paul, readers are walked through the trenches, warfare, wound care, and the horrific realities and consequences of war. Occasionally slow, and hard to stomach, this novel provides a never-before-seen look into the trenches that civilians couldn’t have imagined after their loved ones came home, or didn’t. Recommended for fans of unabashed war novels and those interested in learning more about life on the front lines.