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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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
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
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140441901ISBN:0140441905
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Covers are scuffed up and pages are beginning to brown. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1967
ISBN-13:9780140441901ISBN:0140441905
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps have light edgewear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Good copy. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Cover is nice with minor edgewear and some creasing to spine. Text in English, German. xii, 235 p. 21 cm. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780140441901ISBN:0140441905
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new. Pristine...very mild edge tanning...sales label on the cover.. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. Audience: General/trade. MAIL THE SAME DAY. THANK YOU..01-25-09-(3) read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Swan Buch, Kehl Germany
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9783895070044ISBN:3895070041
Description: New (Very Fine). Not Issued With Dustjacket. The textblock of this unread mass market paperback is clean, tight, carries no highlighting, underlining or marginalia and is in German. The covers are clean, bright and show the slightest bit of tranportation sign including light edgewear and corner bumping. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co
Date Published: 1975
Description: Good. No Jacket. Size: 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; In English, translated from German and abridged. Book is in good condition. Binding is good, some cracking, but all pages intact. Inside text is clean, no notes or writing, but does have underlining in some of the chapters. Some cover and page edgewear and age soiling/toning. Confirmation on all Domestic Orders! 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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