Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane

Overview

Fontane's enchanting seventeen-year-old heroine, Effi, is married off to Geert von Innstetten, an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age. Set in Bismarck's Germany, this luminous and moving tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match, shifts from childhood idyll in Brandenburg, to a remote Baltic port and back to Imperial Berlin.

With Effi Briest, Fontane brilliantly demonstrates the truth of his comment that 'women's stories are generally far more interesting'. His taut, ironic narrative depicts a world where sexuality and the will to enjoy life are stifled by narrow-mindedness and circumstance. And in his humane, unsentimental portrait of Effi, who refuses to bow to convention, he offers us a reading experience that is at once touching and unsettling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783754176917
Publisher:	neobooks
Publication date:	11/24/2021
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	430
File size:	763 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years
Language:	German

About the Author

Theodor Fontane (1819-98) was a German novelist and potitical reporter. He began writing novels – now his best known works – at the age of 57. Fontane once said that 'women's stories are generally far more interesting', and the story of Effie Briest (1894), is considered his masterpiece.

Hugh Rorrison was a translator from German.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Translators' Note	3
	Effi Briest	5
	Notes	219

Editorial Reviews

This superb new translation at last enables English readers to enjoy the novel.

Times London