Effi Briest

Informationen zum Autor Theodor Fontane Klappentext In 1919 Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest (1895) as one of "the six most significant novels ever written." Set in Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's luminous tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between the enchanting seventeen-year-old Effi and an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age, is at once touching and unsettling. Fontane's taut, ironic narrative depicts a world where sexuality and the enjoyment of life are stifled by narrow-mindedness and circumstance. Considered by many to be the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century German novel, Effi Briest is a tale of adultery that ranks with Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina and brilliantly demonstrates the truth of the author's comment and "women's stories are generally far more interesting." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Chambers, Theodor Fontane, Hugh Rorrison
• Assisted by: Helen Chambers (Introduction), Helen Chambers (Translation), Hugh Rorrison (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2000
• EAN: 9780140447668
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044766-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Klassische Lyrik, Lyrik bis 1900, Belletristik in Übersetzung, FICTION / Classics, Deutsche Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Theodor Fontane; Thomas Mann; Anna Karenina; Madame Bovary; George Eliot; Daniel Deronda; Ian McEwan; Atonement; the bell jar