Effi Briest

Name: Effi Briest
Author: Theodor Fontane

by Theodor Fontane

Novel about woman's life destroyed by affair and ostracism in Prussian society

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Theodor Fontane

German novelist who is considered the first great German realist. His novel Effi Briest is the finest German-language psychological novel of the 19th century, exploring adultery and social convention with understated mastery.

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