My favourite book
Nowadays a lot of people think that the more people have TV or Internet in their homes, the fewer people will buy books. It's often thought why to read long novels, when a play on TV can tell you the same story with colours, pictures and actions. But I'm certain, that books are still popular, becouse it's a cheaper way, than to go to the cinema and also you can keep a book forever and read it many time.
My favourite book is written by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), German-American novelist, born in OsnabrÃÂück, Germany, and educated at the University of MÃÂünster. He served in the German army during World War I. During the war he wrote his first novel " All Quite on the Western Front", it became an internalional bestseller. I've read a lot of novels by Remarque, but most of all I like "A time to live and a time to die" published in 1954.
This novel is about Soldier Ernst Greaber, who is doing military service at the Russian front . One day he gets a short holiday homeward. Once arrived in his native town he learns about the despairs and dissapointment the war has spread over the country. The town is bombed down, parents, friends and relatives are vanished. On the desperate search for his missing parents he meets a former companion of his youth Elisabeth. They marry , but unfortunately Ernst must leave his native town and departure back to the front. Just arriving in Russia Ernst is involved into the midst of a conflict. When he gets a lift and has an opportunity to leave the war, he refuses...,becouse the his troops are losing. At this point Ernst perish.
The main character Ernst Greaber is a sensitive, just and loyal...