Effi Briest Fontane s enchanting seventeen year old heroine Effi is married off to Geert von Innstetten an austere workaholic civil servant twice her age Set in Bismarck s Germany this luminous and moving ta

Fontane s enchanting seventeen year old heroine, Effi, is married off to Geert von Innstetten, an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age Set in Bismarck s Germany, this luminous and moving tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match, shifts from childhood idyll in Brandenburg, to a remote Baltic port and back to Imperial Berlin.With Effi Briest,Fontane s enchanting seventeen year old heroine, Effi, is married off to Geert von Innstetten, an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age Set in Bismarck s Germany, this luminous and moving tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match, shifts from childhood idyll in Brandenburg, to a remote Baltic port and back to Imperial Berlin.With Effi Briest, Fontane brilliantly demonstrates the truth of his comment that women s stories are generally far interesting His taut, ironic narrative depicts a world where sexuality and the will to enjoy life are stifled by narrow mindedness and circumstance And in his humane, unsentimental portrait of Effi, who refuses to bow to convention, he offers us a reading experience that is at once touching and unsettling.
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Free Read [Humor and Comedy Book] ↠ Effi Briest - by Theodor Fontane ✓
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Title: Free Read [Humor and Comedy Book] ↠ Effi Briest - by Theodor Fontane ✓
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Published :2020-01-24T20:51:38+00:00
About " Theodor Fontane "
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane 30 December 1819 20 September 1898 was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th century German language realist writer.