Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

"Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontane is a realist novel published in 1895. Seventeen-year-old Effi is married off to Baron von Innstetten, a man twenty years her senior who once courted her mother. Isolated in a remote Pomeranian town while her husband travels frequently, the lonely young woman finds solace in the attentions of Major Crampas. This tale of marriage, adultery, and social judgment explores the tragic consequences when personal desire collides with rigid societal expectations in nineteenth-century Germany. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898
Title Effi Briest
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effi_Briest
Credits Produced by This eBook was prepared by Gunther Olesch from a source file at Project Gutenberg of DE created by Joerg Steinbrenner for PG-DE
Credits This eBook was prepared by Gunther Olesch from a source file at Project Gutenberg of DE created by Joerg Steinbrenner for PG-DE
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Adultery -- Fiction
Subject Didactic fiction
Subject Teenage girls -- Fiction
Subject National characteristics, Prussian -- Fiction
Subject Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject Prussia (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Category Text
EBook-No. 5323
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Most Recently Updated Dec 28, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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