<p>Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane''s <i>Effi Briest</i> is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers in Penguin Classics.<br><br>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. In taut, ironic prose Fontane depicts a world where sexuality and the will to enjoy life are stifled by vain pretences of civilization, and the obligations of circumstance. Considered to be his greatest novel, this is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife and mother and the instincts of her heart.<br
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<p>A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane. <br><br>Charming, cheerful Count Holk is delighted to be called away from his solemn wife to the distant court of a Danish...
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