Effi Briest
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2024
Pushkin Press Classics (Verlag)
978-1-80533-159-9 (ISBN)
Pushkin Press Classics (Verlag)
978-1-80533-159-9 (ISBN)
Effi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Innstetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia. He is twenty years her senior, an ambitious bureaucrat who is uninterested in his young wife, and lively Effi becomes increasingly isolated, bored and anxious in her stifling surroundings. A half-hearted affair with Major Crampas - a manipulative married man with a reputation for womanising - temporarily distracts Effi from her loneliness. But years later, this brief liaison will return to Effi with devastating consequences.
In this witty masterpiece of poetic realism, Fontane portrays a woman torn between her own desires and her roles as wife and mother, between her heart and the obligations of social circumstance.
In this witty masterpiece of poetic realism, Fontane portrays a woman torn between her own desires and her roles as wife and mother, between her heart and the obligations of social circumstance.
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 Effi Briest (1894), is considered his masterpiece.
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.07.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Pushkin Press Classics |
Übersetzer | Hugh Rorrison, Helen Chambers |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
ISBN-10 | 1-80533-159-0 / 1805331590 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80533-159-9 / 9781805331599 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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