March 13, 2008
Endings
Via Kottke is this PDF listing the 100 best ending lines from novels.
Your mileage may very; mine does. They left out this:
He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.Posted by Steve on March 13, 2008 | Trackbacks (0)He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)
Comments
I read that book in high school, and all of a sudden I want to read it again.
Posted by Alison at March 13, 2008 9:25 PMThat was a great book. If you're into WW I books, I have a bunch to recommend.
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