Effi Briest
by Theodor Fontane
German • Public Domain • Free to stream
Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest (1896) is the masterpiece of German Realism — a psychologically devastating portrait of a young woman destroyed by the rigid codes of Prussian society. Seventeen-year-old Effi is married to a much older diplomat, Baron von Instetten. Years later, her brief youthful affair is discovered, and the merciless machinery of honour and social convention grinds her to ruin. Thomas Mann called it one of the six greatest novels ever written. Stream free in German.
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Effi Briest was written by Theodor Fontane, first published in 1896. It is considered the masterpiece of German Realism.
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