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Effi Briest

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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.

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Effi Briest, Theodor Fontane

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2000
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Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
2000
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
ISBN10
0140447660
ISBN13
9780140447668
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First published
1872
Original title
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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.