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Effi Briest (eBook, ePUB)

Abridged, with Biographical Notes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Effi Briest, the classic German realist novel, follows a young woman through her life and marriage. She is an innocent when she is married to the social climbing Instetten, and longs for wordly things. When she is left alone by her husband, who is pursuing his political career, she succumbs to the flattery of another man. Her adultery has wide and tragic consequences on the rest of her life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 321
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775418320
• Artikelnr.: 38343094

Autorenporträt

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 Tôrless 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 Tôrless.

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