| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| (1929) A German novel by Erich Maria Remarque about the horrors and futility of World War I. | 1 |
| ‡ A film adaptation of the novel appeared in 1930. Widely considered the first major antiwar motion picture of the modern era, it won the Academy Award for best picture. A television adaptation of the film aired in 1979. | 2 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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