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Theodor Fontane

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Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist.

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Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane
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Trapped in a loveless marriage to an older baron, the youthful Effi Briest seeks fleeting solace in a forbidden affair, only for its long-buried secret to resurface years later with devastating, inescapable consequences.