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Effi Briest

By: Theodor Fontane
Narrated by: Terence Vincent
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Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers in Penguin Classics. Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her - with fatal consequences. In taut, ironic prose Fontane depicts a world where sexuality and the will to enjoy life are stifled by vain pretences of civilization, and the obligations of circumstance. Considered to be his greatest novel, this is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife and mother and the instincts of her heart.
Public Domain (P)2022 Bookstream GmbH
Classics Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt Witty Marriage
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DO NOT WASTE A CREDIT ON THIS

Narrator RUINS what is a classic book. I cant listen any more. I have tried to return but it wont let me.
He bumbles on like a boring old uncle with false teeth. He can not understand what he is reading so it is monotonous and staccato, with no distinction between narration and all the voices, which are all the same - his voice. He puts wierd pauses in the middle of phrases, and stops before names to set off to pronounce them in a 'foreign' way. Horrible. Honestly it's that bad.
I am really cross about wasting my money and about this book, which I read with great pleasure years ago, being mangled

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