Effi Briest

Yellow

Paperback

Fiction

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Probably the most famous German novel of the nineteenth century, Effi Briest can stand comparison with the great French and Russian works of the same age. Like Madame Bovary it is the story of a woman’s adultery. Like Chekhov’s plays and tales it reminds us that lingering pain is more common in life than melodrama and tragedy. But the story of Effi and the Chinaman’s ghost, the forest and dunes that are its setting, the stern Prussian code that makes the climax both terrible and absurd, are unique to Fontane and to German literature.

Penguin Books

9780140441901

1981

1

~€11.81

2026-02-23

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