Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic

By Hilton Tims

Book Overview

Few books have made so great an impact, political or literary, as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous of all anti-war novels. Startling in its realism, intensely moving in its humanity, banned and burned in Germany by the Nazis, it was an international publishing sensation that has never been equalled and has remained a worldwide bestseller for more than seventy years. But who was Remarque? While the title of his masterpiece has entered the language as a catchphrase, the name of the author is virtually unknown. In this first British biography, Hilton Tims peels away the veil of anonymity Remarque wove to protect his privacy, to reveal a man whose life was one of the most romantic and anguished of the twentieth century. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786713577
• ISBN13: 9780786713578
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A good approach to Remarque

This biography will satisfy most readers of Erich Maria Remarque's fiction. The author doesn't take a scholarly approach to Remarque's work, but then his novels probably don't deserve such serious treatment.Tims successfully provides an interesting account of the author's life and times. A good read.