Effi Briest door
T. Fontane In 1919 Thomas Mann hailed Effi Briest 1895 as one of the six mostsignificant novels ever written. Set in Bismarcks Germany Fontanes luminoustale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match between theenchanting seventeenyearold Effi and an austere workaholic civil servanttwice her age is at once touching and unsettling.
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