Category Archives: Theodor Fontane

Another adulterous woman: ‘Effi Briest’ by Thoedor Fontane

Posted on March 14, 2019 by shoshibookblog

This year I decided to collect the last of the set.  Arguably there are three great nineteenth-century adultery novels of which the French ‘Madame Bovary’ is the oldest and the Russian ‘Anna Karenina’ is the longest.  Fontane’s contribution to the … Continue reading →

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