In November 2025, the Classic Book Discussion Group will read Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, which is considered by many to be one of the greatest war novels of all time.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow…
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another… if only he can come out of the war alive.
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Copies of All Quiet on the Western Front can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s also available digitally as an ebook through Libby/Overdrive.
An in-person discussion of All Quiet on the Western Front will be held at the library on Thursday, November 20, at 3:00 PM. No registration is required to attend.
Published on October 30, 2025.
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