Effie Briest by Theodor Fontane
A spirited teenage girl is married off to an older, career-minded man and moves to a stifling provincial town where loneliness and social constraints drive her into a brief affair with a charismatic officer; years later her husband discovers the indiscretion, kills the officer in a duel and divorces her, takes their child, and she is shunned and falls into illness and despair, her fate revealing the rigid moral code and hypocrisies of her society.
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- 1894
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- German
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- 250-320 pages
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