# All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque has 62,839 words.

## At a glance

1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

- **Author:** [Erich Maria Remarque](https://musael.com/books/authors/erich-maria-remarque.md) (1898–1970)
- **First published:** 1929
- **Original language:** German
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 62,839
- **Reading time:** 4 h 11 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 45 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 14 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 11 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 29 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

All Quiet on the Western Front is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/a-w-wheen
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75011
- LibriVox audiobook (6 h 31 min): https://librivox.org/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-by-erich-maria-remarque/

## 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: 12
- Dialogue: 13% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 13.1 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/a-w-wheen (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75011 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207332
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL38898913W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75011

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/all-quiet-on-the-western-front