Effi Briest (Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0140441905 / Publisher: Penguin Classics, November 1976
Fontane's enchanting seventeen-year-old heroine, Effi, is married off to Geert von Innstetten, an au...
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Fontane's enchanting seventeen-year-old heroine, Effi, is married off to Geert von Innstetten, an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age. Set in Bismarck's Germany, this luminous and moving tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match, shifts from childhood idyll in Brandenburg, to a remote Baltic port and back to Imperial Berlin.
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