- Fiction, Social life and customs, Prussian National characteristics, Prussian national characteristics in fiction
Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Theodor Fontane
- First published
- 1894
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Blurb, Manesse Verlag ; Conzett & Huber,[1957?], Suhrkamp
- Editions
- 170
- Language
- German, French, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781542526371
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“To the front of Hohen-Cremmen, country seat of the von Briest family since the time of Elector Georg Wilhelm, bright sunshine fell on the midday silence in the village street, while on the side facing the park and gardens a wing built on at right angles cast its broad shadow first on a white and green flagstone path, then out over a large roundel of flowers with a sundial at its centre and a border of canna lilies and rhubarb round the edge.”
German novelist and poet
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