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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. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her, with fatal consequences. Considered to be Fontane's greatest novel, "Effi Briest" is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife and mother and the instincts of her heart.
| ISBN | 0140447660 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780140447668
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 191 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Ingham, Patricia | | Publication date | 30 Nov 2000 | | Series title | Penguin Classics S. | | Translator | Hugh Rorrison, Helen Chambers | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of introduction | Helen Chambers | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | PT1863.E31 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY | 833.8 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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It's very moving, and it's incredibly funny ... I wasn't prepared for the wit. Stupendous on so many levels -- Matt Wolff A stunningly moving, beautiful, witty and urbane novel: I was blown away by it. A wonderful translation Kate Saunders  Be the first to write a customer review
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