Effi Briest (Angel Classics)

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 of Bismarck, the considerably older Geert von Innstetten. In the remote Baltic town where the couple first live, Effi has an adulterous affair; when the Innstettens move to Berlin, the social code exacts its drastic price. ""Truly distinguished."" - Martin Seymour Smith, Scotland on Sunday. ""What a difference translation makes."" - Sunday Times.