Effi Briest
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015
- xxxix, 255 p. ; 20 cm
- Oxford world's classics .
Includes bibliographical references. Translated from the German
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.
9780199675647
Social life and customs, 19th century German Fiction Manners and customs Germany, Berlin Adultery Teenage girls Prussian aristocracy Morality Marital relation