Effi Briest

Effi Briest

1894 • 349 pages

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The story is a simple one. Unhappy marriage, adultery, tragedy. The novel is a classic perhaps because it predicted the doom of Prussian society a couple of decades early. Would Effi have landed a in a world of trouble half a century later? a doubt it.

July 2, 2016

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