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Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He takes her from her home to a remote provincial town on the Baltic coast of Prussia where she is isolated, bored, and prey to superstitious fears. She drifts into a half-hearted affair with a manipulative, womanizing officer, which ends when her husband is transferred to Berlin. Years later, events are triggered that will have profound ...
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and The Man Who Disappeared (America), were published after his death and helped to found Kafka’s reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. ...