I lived a life that was intoxicating and beautiful...

This collection includes diary entries, letters, and poems that Remarque wrote throughout his life.
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century appears in this collection as an ordinary person—someone who experiences tumultuous romances and dramatic breakups with beloved women, who watches in horror as Germany is consumed by the tragedy of Nazism in the 1930s, who understands the instability of a difficult life in emigration, and who rejoices in returning home after the war. A person who knew how to befriend and love, even in the hardest times, without losing his distinctive, somewhat sarcastic sense of humor. A person whom neither poverty and obscurity nor worldwide fame could change…