{"product_id":"all-quiet-on-the-western-front-9781324097792","title":"All Quiet on the Western Front","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German novel of all time. Its impact is indisputable: it has been adapted for film, television, and other media; has influenced all subsequent works of war literature; and has been taught in high school and college classes ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now, one translation--published in 1929, and very much a product of its time--has introduced most readers in English to Remarque's wrenching portrait of the horrors of trench warfare. Now, nearly a century later, renowned translator Kurt Beals recaptures the energy and descriptive force of the German original, rendering Remarque's distinctly terse, telegraphic prose into a contemporary idiom, conveying for a new generation the immediacy and intensity of this classic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeals, Kurt:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKurt Beals\u003c\/strong\u003e is a visiting associate professor of German and a humanities fellow in literary translation at the University of Richmond. He has translated twentieth-century and contemporary works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Hermann Hesse, Reiner Stach, Regina Ullmann, and Anja Utler, among others. He lives in Virginia.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemarque, Erich Maria:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eErich Maria Remarque\u003c\/strong\u003e (1898-1970) was one the best-selling German-born authors of the twentieth century. Several of his novels portrayed the experience of war and its aftermath. \u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e was his best-known and most widely read work.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51834696728850,"sku":"9781324097792","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d8a86f2-e2b4-4892-8ea1-4d4deb0d6dfa.jpg?v=1772014252","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-9781324097792","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}