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Effi Briest(1st Edition)
(Oxford World's Classics)
by Theodor Fontane, Ritchie Robertson, Mike Mitchell, Effi Briest
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967564-7, ISBN: 0-19-967564-3

"'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 he ..."

The Stechlin
(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
by Theodor Fontane, William L. Zwiebel
Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2013 by Boye6
ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-573-5, ISBN: 1-57113-573-1

"Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. The Stechlin is Fontane's last book and his political testament. Like Effi Briest, his great work on the place of women in Bismarck's empire, it is set at the apex of the Wilhelmine era, both in Berlin and on t ..."

Irretrievable
(New York Review Books Classics)
by Theodor Fontane, Phillip Lopate, Douglas Parmee, Fellow Douglas Parmee
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Nyrb Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-374-9, ISBN: 1-59017-374-0

"Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their two children. Helmut is lighthearted and pleasure-loving and largely content to defer to his wife’s deeper feelings and better ..."

No Way Back(Reprint)
(Penguin Classics)
by Theodor Fontane, Hugh Rorrison, Helen Chambers
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139215-8, ISBN: 0-14-139215-0

"A classic novel about marriage and betrayal from the great German realistGregarious and adventurous, Count Helmuth Holk is delighted to be called away from his solemn and pious wife to the distant court of a Danish princess. Swept up in the romance of his new surroundings, he does not realize that everyone there is not what they seem—a fact that causes him to make a decision that has fatal consequences. A tragicomic novel of a fail ..."

Irrungen Wirrungen, Berliner Roman(1st Edition)
Diversions and Entanglements, A Berlin Novel (translation) (English and German Edition)
by Theodor Fontane, Curt Swanson
Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2009 by Quillcox Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-00543-9, ISBN: 0-692-00543-9

"Theodor Fontane wrote eighteen novels and novellas that established him as Germany’s foremost Realist author of the late 19th century. One of his greatest achievements is his novel “Irrungen Wirrungen,” completed when he was nearly seventy. Set in Berlin, capital of the new German empire, it begins with the fairytale summer romance of an aristocratic cavalry officer and a working-class seamstress. Financial difficulties and the social d ..."

Effi Briest
(CD-Audio)
by Theodor Fontane
Published 2020 by Naxos 2020-04-10
ISBN-13: 978-1-09-416615-5, ISBN: 1-09-416615-4

Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel
by Theodor Fontane, Andrew Moore, Katharine Royce
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2009 by Mondial
ISBN-13: 978-1-59569-125-5, ISBN: 1-59569-125-1

"The gentle melancholy of two people coming together in a way which can never lead to full satisfaction, the quiet tragedy of a separation not forced by external powers but by the constant pressure of circumstances-this is what sounds through this splendid story. "Trials and Tribulations" is built entirely on this motive. An honest sturdy young officer and a decent pretty girl get to know each other on an excursion. Unconsciously they dr ..."

Effi Briest(Updated)
(Angel Classics)
by Theodor Fontane, Hugh Rorrison, Helen Chambers
Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 1996 by Angel Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-946162-44-4, ISBN: 0-946162-44-1

"I recommend Effi Briest...first class uplifting, shaming, beautiful to make you weep."" - Thomas Mann. Germany's best-loved classic novel, first published in 1895, is set in the heyday of Bismarck's Berlin and its effervescent heroine is one of the most unforgettable in literature. It is the story of an arranged marriage between the spirited seventeen-year-old daughter of a country gentleman and a high-flying civil servant and confidant ..."

Spreeland
Beeskow Storkow Und Barnim Teltow (1882) (German Edition)
by Theodor Fontane
Hardcover, Published by Kessinger Publishing, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-167-95171-8, ISBN: 1-167-95171-9

Spreeland
Beeskow Storkow Und Barnim Teltow (1882) (German Edition)
by Theodor Fontane
Paperback, Published by Kessinger Publishing, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-160-25606-3, ISBN: 1-160-25606-3

Spreeland
Beeskow Storkow Und Barnim Teltow (1882) (German Edition)
by Theodor Fontane
Paperback, Published by Kessinger Publishing, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-167-68902-4, ISBN: 1-167-68902-X

Von Zwanzig His Dreissig
by Theodor Fontane
Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-104-52416-6, ISBN: 1-104-52416-3

Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
ISBN-13: 978-0-8219-3797-6, ISBN: 0-8219-3797-9

Effi Briest
Large Print
by Theodor Fontane
Paperback, Published 2019 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-79646-103-9, ISBN: 1-79646-103-2

Mathilde Moehring
(Paperback)
by Theodor Fontane
Paperback, Published 2019 by Independently Published, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-70238-323-3, ISBN: 1-70238-323-7

Grete Minde d'après une chronique de la Vieille Marche de Brandebourg
traduit de l'allemand par Lucie Dionnet (French Edition)
by Theodor Fontane, Lucie Dionnet
Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-71989-461-6, ISBN: 1-71989-461-2

"Grete Minde est âgée d’environ 13 ans au début de la nouvelle. Orpheline de mère, elle est élevée par Trud, la femme de son demi-frère Gerdt, qui la déteste. Sa mère était catholique et d’origine espagnole. Son père, protestant, meurt à son tour peu de temps après sa confirmation. La seule personne qui comprenne vraiment Grete est son voisin et meilleur ami Valtin. Ce dernier la vénère et l’aime depuis qu’ils sont enfants. Mais Trud Min ..."

Spreeland
Beeskow Storkow Und Barnim Teltow (1882) (German Edition)
by Theodor Fontane
Hardcover, Published by Kessinger Publishing, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-160-66742-5, ISBN: 1-160-66742-X

Les Poggenpuhl
traduit de l'allemand par Lucie Dionnet (French Edition)
by Theodor Fontane, Lucie Dionnet
Paperback, 149 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-79407-269-5, ISBN: 1-79407-269-1

"L’histoire se déroule l’année des trois empereurs, en 1888, et fait le portrait d’une famille d’aristocrates dont le père, officier, est tombé lors de la bataille de Gravelotte en 1870 et qui, depuis, survit à Berlin avec de faibles moyens. Malgré cette situation financière difficile, sujet récurrent, les fameuses « causeries » à la Fontane sont ici encore empreintes d’humour et d’une élégante gaieté.Die Poggenpuhls, écrit par Theodor F ..."

Aus Den Tagen Der Occupation
Eine Osterreise Durch Nordfrankreich Und Elsass-Lothringen, 1871 (1872) (German Edition)
by Theodor Fontane
Published by Kessinger Publishing, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-160-30813-7, ISBN: 1-160-30813-6

Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2019 by Blurb
ISBN-13: 978-0-464-86388-5, ISBN: 0-464-86388-0

"The novel marks a watershed and climax in the poetic realism of literature and forms a thematic trilogy on marriage from the female point of view along with the more famous Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary."

Books by Theodor Fontane