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Sîntem în primăvara anului 1923, cînd Germania încearcă să-şi revină după Primul Război Mondial. Inflaţia creşte, iar marca germană se devalorizează şi ajunge să fie folosită drept hîrtie de tapet în odăile celor disperaţi, ca un accesoriu al indiferenţei. Tînărul Ludwig Bodmer, angajat al firmei de monumente funerare Heinrich Kroll & Fiii, face cunoştinţă cu mica societate boemă care-l ajută să-şi uite măcar pentru o noapte, două îndoielile.

Germania anilor '30. Trei foşti camarazi de arme îşi cîştigă existenţa pe zi ce trece tot mai precară vînzînd maşini de ocazie şi lucrînd în atelierul de reparaţii auto pe care l-au pus pe picioare împreună. Trupe înarmate de soldaţi mărşăluiesc cu mîndrie pe străzi. Nesiguranţa, sărăcia şi violenţa domnesc pretutindeni. Pentru cei trei, prietenia este singurul refugiu în faţa haosului din jur.

Ne aflăm în anul 1942 – al Doilea Război Mondial a cuprins deja mare parte a Europei. Cu greu se mai poate găsi o cale de scăpare pentru cei prinşi de valul războiului. Singurul gînd ce însufleţeşte miile de refugiaţi, singura nădejde care ţine în viaţă generaţii întregi este visul de a fugi în America. În frămîntatul oraş Lisabona, unde speranţa libertăţii pîlpîie încă, un tînăr îşi lasă iubita la hotel şi încearcă să cîştige la cazinou banii pentru două bilete cu care să se îmbarce pe vaporul către New York. Mai are în buzunar şaizeci şi doi de dolari, din care pierde mare parte.

These four novels remain classics 100 years after they were published. They not only shaped the literature of the 20th century, but they altered our views of life and reality—and what can and cannot be written about. These novels—all written a century ago—remain gripping and unforgettable. These audio versions bring their powerful narratives vividly to life for the modern listener.

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend.

With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.

A harrowing tale of camaraderie, loss, and the dehumanizing brutality of war, All Quiet on the Western Front follows young German soldier Paul Bäumer as he endures the horrors of World War I. Erich Maria Remarque's timeless masterpiece exposes the devastating impact of conflict on the human soul.

This gripping tale follows Paul and his mates as they navigate the horror, boredom, and stupidity of the First World War. We see the pain of one comrade, who loses a leg, while his friends covet the pair of boots he can no longer wear. We follow Paul’s company as it is whittled down in combat from 150 men to 32. Paul, wounded, goes home on leave, but he feels alienated from his family, who do not understand what he has gone through and to whom he cannot explain it.

After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable. For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart, Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live for - and what he has that no one can ever take away.

In 1914 Paul Bumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed.Here, he tells their story. A few years after publication, the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.

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.

German-American novelist Erich Maria Remarque captured the emotional anguish of a generation in his World War I masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as in an impressive selection of novels, plays, and short stories. This exquisite collection revives Remarque’s unforgettable voice, presenting a series of short stories that have long ago faded from public memory. Eight Stories offers a beautiful tribute to the pain that war inflicts on soldiers and civilians alike, and resurrects the work of a master author whose legacy will endure for generations to come.