A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Name: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Author: Erich Maria Remarque

A Time to Love and a Time to Die is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque that tells the story of a German soldier during World War II who falls in love with a woman while on leave. The book explores themes of love, loss, and the devastation of war.

By Erich Maria Remarque · First published 1954 · Genre: Historical Fiction, War Fiction, Romance · 27 chapters · 147,236 words

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DEATH smelled different in Russia than in Africa. In Africa, under heavy English fire, the corpses between the lines had often lain unburied for a long time, too; but the sun had worked fast. At night the smell had come over with the wind, sweet, stifling and heavy-gas had filled the dead and they had risen like ghosts in the light of the alien stars as though they were fighting one last battle, silent, hopeless, and each for himself alone-but by the next day they had already begun to shrink, to nestle against the earth with infinite weariness as if trying to crawl into it-and if later they could be brought back some were light and dried out and the ones that were found weeks after were hardly more than skeletons that rattled loosely in uniforms suddenly far too big for them. It was a dry death, in sand, sun and wind. In Russia it was a greasy, stinking death.

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Work type: Novel
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Date: 1954 CE
Language: English
Genres: Historical Fiction, War Fiction, Romance, Drama, Literary Fiction
Length: 147,236 words
Structure: 27 chapters, 4,051 paragraphs
Reading fit: Very Easy (5th Grade or below)

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Historical Fiction — The novel is set during World War II and explores the impact of the war on individuals and society.
War Fiction — The narrative focuses on the experiences of a soldier during wartime, highlighting the brutality and futility of war.
Romance — A central theme of the story is the love affair between the protagonist and a woman he meets during the war.
Drama — The book delves into the emotional and moral struggles faced by the characters, providing a dramatic exploration of human nature.