Effi Briest (Penguin Classics)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780140441901 (0140441905)
ASIN: 0140441905
Publish date: 1976-11-18
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
19th Century,
German Literature,
Germany
This review refers to Douglas Parmee's translation.This book starts with the 17-year-old Effi being engaged to marry a man twenty years older. Actually, it starts with Effi joking about the penalty for adultery being drowning and carrying out a playful mock water-burial. If that isn't foreshadowing,...
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