Effi Briest
Author: Theodor Fontane
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 on the Baltic coast of Prussia where she is isolated, bored, and prey to superstitious fears. She drifts into a half-hearted aff….Read More
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