About this title: Effi Briest betrays her super-rational husband with the wily Crampas and takes the appalling consequences, in a novel that questions the nature of happiness.
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin, Middlesex
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. No Jacket (as issued) 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Softcover, spine and covers creased, interior clean tight, previous owners name to inside front cover. read more
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. Ships within 24 hours., 450grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag GmbH
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9783150081198ISBN:315008119X
Description: Paperback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a study copy. pp., 150grams, ISBN: 315008119x. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag GmbH
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9783150069615ISBN:3150069610
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9783150069615ISBN:3150069610
Description: Paperback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in poor all round condition, suitable as a reading copy. pp., 200grams, ISBN: 3150069610. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780140441901ISBN:0140441905
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Acceptable. Highlighting/notations in text. covers bent. spine slightly torn, binding intact. Book is ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text. read more
Description: Very good. Appearance of only slight previous use. Cover and binding show a little wear. All pages are undamaged with potentially only a few, small markings. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
"I had to read this my senior year of college in a German literature class, and I thought it was absolutely terrific - this is one of the books that I can point to as helping me transition into being able to read "important" literature effectively."
"I read this book while on vacation. It is a sad book. Effi is a bright, engaging young girl in the beginning. She is married to her mother's former suitor (big EW! factor for me). Her husband cannot be bothered with her at all - he treats her more like a child than a wife. Effi becomes enamored with another man and from the writing, I surmised she had an affair (sexual and emotional). She makes the mistake of keeping the love letters and these come back to haunt her later in life. In the end, Effi loses everything and everyone in her life. Her parents reluctantly take her back into their home (risking their loss of societal life) and it is here that Effi's story ends.
As stated previously, this is a sad book; yet, I am glad to have read it. This book is a third in what is called a female study trilogy - Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina being the other two. I, therefore, think that this might mean a study in strong female characters who know their own mind but are stifled by the men and by society.
If you are given an opportunity to read Effi Briest, please do. You will not be sorry for the time and/or the experience. I, for one, am going to read Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina in the very near future to better understand why it is that these three books are said to be a "female trilogy.""
"A book about a love affair more than a century ago - if you're interested in how stories would have ended then, don't watch the movie, read the book!!!"
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