Ebook: Effi Briest
Author: Chambers Helen, Fontane Theodor, Rorrison Hugh
- Tags: Adultery--Germany--Prussia, Fiction In Translation, Teenage girls--Germany--Prussia, National characteristics Prussian, Manners and customs, Teenage girls, Adultery, Fiction, Electronic books, Didactic fiction, National characteristics Prussian -- Fiction, Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, Adultery -- Germany -- Prussia -- Fiction, Teenage girls -- Germany -- Prussia -- Fiction, Prussia (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction, Germany -- Berlin, Ge
- Series: Penguin classics
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc.
- City: London;New York;Berlin (Germany);Prussia (Germany);Germany;Berlin;Prussia
- Language: English
- epub
In 1919 Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest (1895) as one of the six most significant novels ever written." Set in Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old Effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and unsettling. Fontane's taut, ironic narrative depicts a world where sexuality and the enjoyment of life are stifled by narrow-mindedness and circumstance. Considered by many to be the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century German novel, Effi Briest is a tale of adultery that ranks with Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina and brilliantly demonstrates the truth of the author's comment and "women's stories are generally far more interesting."