Black Obelisk
  • Published:
    Jun-1957 (Hardcover)
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  • Main Genre:
    Gothic
  • Pages:
    448
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From the author of the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Black Obelisk is a classic novel of the troubling aftermath of World War I in Germany.

A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased loved ones. Though ambivalent about his job, he suspects there's more to life than earning a living off other people's misfortunes.

A self-professed poet, Ludwig soon senses a growing change in his fatherland, a brutality brought upon it by inflation. When he falls in love with the beautiful but troubled Isabelle, Ludwig hopes he has found a soul who will offer him salvation -- who will free him from his obsession to find meaning in a war-torn world. But there comes a time in every man's life when he must choose to live -- despite the prevailing thread of history horrifically repeating itself.

“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
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    •  
    • Jun-1998
    • Ballantine
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0449912442
    • ISBN13: 9780449912447
    •  
    • May-2002
    • Simon Publications
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1931541906
    • ISBN13: 9781931541909
    •  
    • Jun-1957
    • Harcourt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0151131813
    • ISBN13: 9780151131815
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • Random House
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0812985559
    • ISBN13: 9780812985559



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