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FONTANE THEODOR EFFI BRIEST

An exceptional translation of Fontane's masterpiece: one of the great 19th-century novels of
adultery to stand beside Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary "A stunningly moving  beautiful  witty
and urbane novel: I was blown away by it" -- Kate Saunders  author of The Secrets of Wishtide
In this witty masterpiece of poetic realism  expertly translated by Hugh Rorrison  Effi Briest
shows Theodor Fontane at the height of his talents  as he questions the hypocrisies and
destructive values of middle-class society. Effi Briest is only 17 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 20 years her senior  an ambitious bureaucrat 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. Written with great
empathy for his characters  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. Part of the
Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world  in a
stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the
world's greatest authors  this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig  Hermann Hesse 
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.

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