Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, Ritchie Robertson

Effi Briest

Theodor Fontane, Ritchie Robertson with Mike Mitchell (Translator)

272 pages first pub 1895 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.' Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He takes her from her home to a remote provincial town...

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