num_pages: 247
description: Fontane's enchanting seventeen-year-old heroine, Effi, is married off to Geert von Innstetten, an austere, workaholic civil servant twice her age. Set in Bismarck's Germany, this luminous and moving tale of a socially suitable but emotionally disastrous match, shifts from childhood idyll in Brandenburg, to a remote Baltic port and back to Imperial Berlin.
language: English
title: Effi Briest
titlecomplete: Effi Briest
characters: Geert von Innstetten, Roswitha Gellenhagen, Effi Briest, Effi Briest, Geert von Innstetten, Major Crampas, Roswitha Gellenhagen, Major Crampas
genres: Fiction, Read For School, School, 19th Century, Germany, German Literature, Novels, Romance, Literature, Classics
ratings_count: 13333
places: Brandenburg, Germany, Berlin, Pomerania
publisher: UNKNO