This article is about the 1929 novel. For other uses, see All Quiet on the Western Front (disambiguation).
All Quiet on the Western Front
First edition cover
Author
Erich Maria Remarque
Original title
Im Westen nichts Neues
Translator
A. W. Wheen (1929)
Brian Murdoch (1993)
Illustrator
Carl Laemmle
Cover artist
Erich Maria Remarque
Country
Germany
Language
German
Genre
War novel
Set in
Western Front and Germany, 1916–18
Publisher
Propyläen Verlag
Publication date
29 January 1929
Published in English
Little, Brown and Company, 1929
Pages
200
OCLC
295972o
Dewey Decimal
833.912
LC Class
PT2635.E68
Followed by
The Road Back
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West, nothing new') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war.
The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, The Road Back (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. All Quiet on the Western Front sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.[1]
Three film adaptations of the book have been made, each of which was lauded. The 1930 American adaptation, directed by Lewis Milestone, won two Academy Awards. The 1979 British-American adaptation, a television film by Delbert Mann, won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. The 2022 German adaptation, directed by Edward Berger, won four Academy Awards.
The book entered the public domain in the United States in 2024, with the 1930 film adaptation set to do so in 2026.[2][3]
^Eksteins, Modris (April 1980). "All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War". Journal of Contemporary History. 15 (2). SAGE Publications: 353. doi:10.1177/002200948001500207. S2CID 159998295.
^"Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law". web.law.duke.edu.
^Hirtle, Peter B. (January 3, 2020). "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States". Cornell University Library Copyright Information Center. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
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