Effi Briest (Oxford World's Classics)
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'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 affair with a manipulative, womanizing officer, which ends when her husband is transferred to Berlin. Years later, events are triggered that will have profound consequences for Effi and her family.
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 1 June 2015
ISBN-10 : 0199675643 | ISBN-13: 9780199675647
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Release date: 1 June 2015
ISBN-10 : 0199675643 | ISBN-13: 9780199675647
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Novels 1880 - 1899 (29 books items)
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