Effi Briest
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States]: Neeland Media LLC, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781420944891 (electronic bk.) MWT11932884, 1420944894 (electronic bk.) 11932884
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
One of his best known works was "Effi Briest," a novel about a teenage girl whose family arranges a marriage between her and Baron von Innstetten, a promising 38-year-old government official. The remarkably passive and detached young girl soon finds herself entangled in an adulterous affair. Fontane's brilliant dialogue, poetic realism, and strong thematic elements put "Effi Briest" in the arena of such adultery tragedies as "Anna Karenina" and "Madame Bovary."
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