All Quiet on the Western Front: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

All Quiet on the Western Front, credited to Erich Maria Remarque, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. (Translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen.) Read in English by Atul Sharma. All Quiet on the Western Front is an iconic anti-war novel. A semi-autobiographical work by WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque, it is the story Paul Bäumer and his classmates, who are inspired by a patriotic school teacher, Kantorek, to enlist in the Imperial German Army. Here, they face the extreme mental and physical trauma of the German trenches and a growing disconnect between the front and civilian life. First published in serial form in 1928, the book and its sequel were subsequently banned in Nazi Germany. Adapted to film in 1930, 1979, and 2022, it garnered 6 Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Emmy. Nevertheless, there is something both moving and disturbing in the printed work, which was translated into 29 languages, including the first English translation by A.W. Wheen. From the prologue: This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war. - Summary by ASharma

Recording facts

• Recording title: All Quiet on the Western Front
• Author credits: Erich Maria Remarque
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 6:30:45

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• anti-war
• film adaptations

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 23:53
2. 02 - Chapter II — 19:50
3. 03 - Chapter III — 19:44
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 32:55
5. 05 - Chapter V — 28:25
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 54:26
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 1:06:24
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 15:30
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 42:54
10. 10 - Chapter X — 52:44
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 29:40
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 4:20

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