![]() ![]() I’ve found the printing on the cover to be a bit prone to rubbing: my copy has an unsightly scratch to the rear and rubbed corners. The cover carries the novel’s title in a cursive Germanic face called Diva, while the spine bears the title, author’s name, and the word FOLIO. The book is bound in beige cloth (though it feels a bit like buckram), printed with a brown design of a desolate war-torn landscape (based on the photograph Bombed streets at Fort Souville, 26 July 1916). This lends it a crude, utilitarian austerity that makes the book look like it might have been provisioned for supply at the front. The volume is presented in a plain grey-brown slipcase that has a slightly coarse appearance (like the fabric of a field tunic). This is the 2010 edition, which has a more elaborate binding design.Īll Quiet on the Western Front exterior details. ![]() Folio Society first published this novel in 1966. ![]() When he published All Quiet on the Western Front (first published in book form in 1929 as Im Westen nichts Neues), therefore, it was not to be a tale of action and adventure, but a reflection on the plight of the ordinary solider in a world where there are no heroes, only victims. ![]() All Quiet on the Western Front book video.Įrich Maria Remarque knew all too well the face of war, having been conscripted into the (soon to be defeated) German Imperial Army in 1917. ![]()
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