Erich Maria Remarque. Stated first (American) edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. The unclipped dust jacket is in Good condition while the hardcover is in Very Good condition. The inside flaps of jacket are glued to the book. There is a Cambridge Library sticker on flyleaf but no other library markings. No writing in this sturdy book, 480 pp.
Remarque's novel of the German Depression following the First World War. The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.
