Effi Briest
Condition: SECONDHAND
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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, widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Theodor Fontane chronicles the tragic life of Effi Briest, a spirited and vivacious young woman married off to the much older Baron von Innstetten, a man of rigid ambition and cold propriety. Set against the backdrop of Prussian society, the novel uncovers the suffocating social conventions and moral codes that ultimately destroy an innocent life. Written with a tone of quiet, devastating irony, Fontane illustrates how a society obsessed with honour and reputation can crush the individual spirit beneath it. A masterpiece of psychological portraiture, it stands alongside Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as one of literature's most searching indictments of patriarchal society.
Author: Fontane
Format: Paperback
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, widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Theodor Fontane chronicles the tragic life of Effi Briest, a spirited and vivacious young woman married off to the much older Baron von Innstetten, a man of rigid ambition and cold propriety. Set against the backdrop of Prussian society, the novel uncovers the suffocating social conventions and moral codes that ultimately destroy an innocent life. Written with a tone of quiet, devastating irony, Fontane illustrates how a society obsessed with honour and reputation can crush the individual spirit beneath it. A masterpiece of psychological portraiture, it stands alongside Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as one of literature's most searching indictments of patriarchal society.