Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane

Overview

'Ach, Luise, laß … das ist ein zu weites Feld.' Fontanes Effi Briest reiht sich nach „Madame Bovary“ und „Anna Karenina“ ein in die Reihe der großen dramatischen Eheromane des 19. Jahrhunderts. Es ist sein bis heute populärstes und in der Literaturgeschichte bedeutendstes Werk: ein scharfes Gesellschaftsporträt und zugleich hoch poetisch. Vollständige Ausgabe mit Nachbemerkung.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783945909195
Publisher:	Ideenbrücke Verlag
Publication date:	03/10/2015
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	395
File size:	454 KB
Language:	German

About the Author

Mike Mitchell has translated numerous works of German fiction, for which he has eight times been shortlisted for prizes; his translation of Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the Schegel-Tieck Prize in 1998. He has translated Kafka's The Trial and Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless for Oxford World's Classics.

Ritchie Robertson's books include Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature(OUP, 1985), Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2004, and Mock Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine (OUP, 2009). He has translated Kafka's The Man who Disappeared and Hoffmann's The Golden Pot and Other Stories for Oxford World's Classics, and introduced and annotated five volumes by Kafka and Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Translators' Note	3
	Effi Briest	5
	Notes	219

Editorial Reviews

This superb new translation at last enables English readers to enjoy the novel.

Times London