![]() ![]() Moreover, the new and used texts currently on the market differ dramatically from one another, Novel venerated today is in many ways remote from the original German-language text as well as the translation that early Readers have long admired the novel for its unflinching description of combat and for its criticism of war. The novel is frequently taught at the high school and college levelsĪnd is often the sole representative of war fiction written by a veteran on students’ curricula. Today, All Quiet on the Western Front is considered a classic and remains continually in print. As of 1975, more than 3,425,000 copies of the novel had been sold in the United States. Despite the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, sales had reached “a million in Britain, France, and the United States The text was quickly translated into twenty-three languages, and theseĮditions sold at a similarly brisk pace. ![]() Weeks and nearly half a million copies in three months. published the book in Germany in January 1929, where it sold 200,000 copies in three ![]() In its original German, Im Westen Nichts Neues ( Nothing New on the Western Front) was first published as a serial in 1928 in Vossische Zeitung, a Berlin newspaper. “Try Simply to Tell” Translation, Censorship, and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front Sarah EilefsonĮrich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is the most influential novel about World War I. ![]()
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