Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque
Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque
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Three Comrades

Author: Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Wesley Wheen

Narrator: Michael Braun

Unabridged: 16 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/18/2019

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front comes Three Comrades, a harrowing novel that follows a group of friends as they cope with upheaval in Germany between World Wars I and II. The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can have never imagined. Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."—The New York Times Book Review

About Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) was born in Osnabrück, Germany, of French ancestry. He studied at the University of Münster but had to enlist in the German army at the age of eighteen. He fought on the Western Front and was wounded several times. He began his writing career as a journalist. Fame came with his first novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), which sold more than a million copies in its first year and created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. He left Germany in 1932 because of Nazism, came to the United States in 1939, and became a US citizen in 1947. All Quiet on the Western Front was adapted to film in 1930.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on April 09, 2023

Youth is an age of magic: you’re full of pep, zest, enthusiasm, hopes, friendship… love. She began to speak, but soon I no longer heard what she was saying. I heard only her voice, and as I sat there on the table in the dark hall, between the boar's head and the kitchen with the haricot beans, a door......more

Goodreads review by Lena on February 06, 2025

Poignant and precise story of the lost generation. The story revolves around three friends who fought together during war that made their relationship quite special. That nostalgic closeness is touching, but I was more impressed by how the author depicts Germany between wars - falling economy that le......more

Goodreads review by Mihaela on February 27, 2024

O poveste de dragoste superbă. O prietenie care numai cei care trec împreună prin ororile războiului pot să lege. O scriere în cuvinte simple care descrie greutățile din anii '20, dar care au un impact direct. Superbă!......more