All Quiet on the Western Front

At a glance

1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Author

Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970

First published

1929

Original language

German

Genre

Literary fiction

Readers

Adult

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

Readers' rating

4.2 out of 5from 978 ratings on Hardcover

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 11 min at 250 words a minute, or 6 h 45 min as an audiobook.

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Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

Words in the text

62,898

Chapters

12about 5,242 words each

Dialogue

13%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

13.1 words

Vocabulary

435 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• standardebooks.orgword count
• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record
• wikidata.orgdescription and author
• hardcover.appreaders' rating

The word count is Standard Ebooks’ count of its edition; the figures under “Counted from the text” are Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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