Effi Briest
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Effi Briest is a landmark of German realist literature, written by Theodor Fontane and first published in 1895. The novel chronicles the tragic life of Effi Briest, a vivacious young woman married off to a much older Prussian nobleman, Baron von Innstetten, whose cold ambition and rigid adherence to social convention slowly suffocates her spirit. When Effi's brief affair is discovered years later, the consequences are devastating — not out of passion or jealousy, but from a cold, calculated sense of honour — illustrating the brutal indifference of nineteenth-century German bourgeois society toward individual happiness. Written with quiet irony and deep psychological insight, Fontane presents a damning portrait of a social order that sacrifices its most vulnerable members on the altar of respectability. Widely regarded as Germany's answer to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, this timeless masterpiece endures as one of the greatest European novels of the nineteenth century.
Author: Fontane
Format: Paperback
Published: 1967, Penguin Classics
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Effi Briest is a landmark of German realist literature, written by Theodor Fontane and first published in 1895. The novel chronicles the tragic life of Effi Briest, a vivacious young woman married off to a much older Prussian nobleman, Baron von Innstetten, whose cold ambition and rigid adherence to social convention slowly suffocates her spirit. When Effi's brief affair is discovered years later, the consequences are devastating — not out of passion or jealousy, but from a cold, calculated sense of honour — illustrating the brutal indifference of nineteenth-century German bourgeois society toward individual happiness. Written with quiet irony and deep psychological insight, Fontane presents a damning portrait of a social order that sacrifices its most vulnerable members on the altar of respectability. Widely regarded as Germany's answer to Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, this timeless masterpiece endures as one of the greatest European novels of the nineteenth century.