About this audiobook
Author: Theodor Fontane
Type: Classic Literature
Language: German
Literary tradition: Germany
Duration: 11h 23m
Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
Source: LibriVox / Internet Archive
This public-domain audiobook is provided for free listening.
About the Story
Effi Briest enters a marriage that offers security but little understanding, and her loneliness gradually leads to a choice that society will not forgive. Years later, the consequences of that private decision return with devastating force.
Theodor Fontane's novel is a subtle study of class, marriage, and social judgment in Imperial Germany. Its restrained style gives great emotional force to the story of a life constrained by convention.
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