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Irretrievable (New York Review Books Classics) May 2, 2012

by Theodor Fontane, Phillip Lopate, Douglas Parmée

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Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their two children. Helmut is lighthearted and pleasure-loving and largely content to defer to his wife’s deeper feelings and better wisdom. They live in a beautiful large house overlooking the sea, which they built themselves, and have been happily married for twenty-three years—only of late a certain tension has crept into their dealings with each other. Little jokes, casual endearments, long-meditated plans: they all hit a raw nerve.

How a couple can slowly drift apart, until one day they find themselves in a situation which is nothing they ever wished for but from which they cannot go back, is at the heart of this timeless story of everyday life. Theodor Fontane’s great gift is to tell the story effectively in his characters’ own words, listening to how they talk and fail to talk to each other, watching them turn away from their own true feelings as much as from each other. Irretrievable is a nuanced, affectionate, enormously sophisticated, and profoundly humane reckoning with the blindness of love.

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Effi Briest (Oxford World's Classics) Apr 9, 2015

by Theodor Fontane, Mike Mitchell

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'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.'

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 consequences for Effi and her
family.

Effi Briest (1895) is recognized as one of the masterpieces by Theodor Fontane, Germany's premier realist novelist, and one of the great novels of marital relations together with Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. It presents life among the conservative Prussian aristocracy with irony and gentle humour, and opposes the rigid and antiquated morality of the time by treating its heroine with sympathy and keen psychological insight.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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On Tangled Paths (Penguin Classics) Jun 6, 2013

by Theodor Fontane, Peter James Bowman

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A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane.

Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet know they have only a short time together as society deems their relationship impossible and refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of their feelings. But while Botho appears to have a glittering life ahead of him, the love he feels may yet be his undoing. Published in 1887, On Tangled Paths caused a scandal on publication with its portrayal of a sexual affair across the classes, and is a taut, flawless masterpiece.

Theodor Fontane was born in the Prussian province of Brandenburg in 1819. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he made his living as a writer. From 1855 to 1859, he lived in London and worked as a freelance journalist and press agent for the Prussian embassy. While working as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1 he was taken prisoner, but released after two months. His first novel, Before the Storm, was published when he was fifty-eight and was followed by sixteen further novels, of which Effi Briest, No Way Back and On Tangled Paths are all published in Penguin Classics. He died in 1898.

Peter James Bowman completed a PhD on Fontane at Cambridge University, and now works as a writer and translator.

'On Tangled Paths has the flawless logic and beautiful design of the novella at its best' - Paul Binding, The Spectator

'There is an undertow of sadness to this novel, yet to read it is a joy, for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy' - Ruth Pavey, The Independent

'Theodor Fontane's first true masterpiece; it has a perfect beginning, a perfect ending, and no superfluous sentence in between' - Henry Garland

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No Way Back (Penguin Classics) Jun 6, 2013

by Theodor Fontane, Helen Chambers, Hugh Rorrison

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A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming, cheerful Count Holk is delighted to be called away from his solemn wife to the distant court of a Danish princess. Swept up in the romance of his new, lively surroundings at a 'castle by the sea', the Count does not realize that not everyone there is what they seem - and that a wrong decision may have fatal consequences. Published in 1892, this tragicomic work of failing marriage and modern sexual politics is full of the irony, elegance and masterful dialogue for which Theodor Fontane is acclaimed.

Theodor Fontane was born in the Prussian province of Brandenburg in 1819. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he made his living as a writer. From 1855 to 1859, he lived in London and worked as a freelance journalist and press agent for the Prussian embassy. While working as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1 he was taken prisoner, but released after two months. His first novel, Before the Storm, was published when he was fifty-eight and was followed by sixteen further novels, of which Effi Briest, No Way Back and On Tangled Paths are all published in Penguin Classics. He died in 1898.

Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers have both published extensively on German literature, and translated together the Penguin Classics translation of Fontane's Effi Briest.

'No Way Back has the amplitude, the social and personal varieties, we expect of the major social novel; it surely ranks among the most imaginatively challenging and intellectually satisfying attainments in that dominant nineteenth-century form' - Paul Binding, The Spectator

'Helen Chambers and Hugh Rorrison have improved on the previous English version...natural, idiomatic' - Ritchie Robertson, Times Literary Supplement

'Theodor Fontane's standing in Germany is comparable to Jane Austen's in the English-speaking world...his best work is an elegant and engaging blend of irony, penetration and compassion' Helen Chambers

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The Stechlin Apr 7, 2021

by Theodor Fontane, Lee Mckenzie

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"High, cheerful and woeful music of life, playing around the human in a delightful way never heard before, are these chats ..."
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Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. The Stechlin is Fontane's last book and his political testament. Like Effi Briest, his great work on the place of women in Bismarck's empire, it is set at the apex of the Wilhelmine era, both in Berlin and on the estate of a Prussian Junker on the shores of Lake Stechlin. It is a significant historical and cultural document, probably the finest chronicle of the lifestyle of the German upper classes in the late nineteenth century; Fontane portrays the best in the life and ways of the passing Prussian aristocracy, while describing his hopes for the future of Germany and its nobility, which were never to be fully realized. Although this novel has been translated into many languages, it has never before been available in English; this edition thus fills an important gap in the significant works of European literature accessible to English readers

Der Stechlin: Gesellschaftsroman der Jahrhundertwende (German Edition) Jul 8, 2015

by Theodor Fontane

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Dieses eBook: "Der Stechlin" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Der Stechlin ist Fontanes letzter Roman. Seine Hauptfigur, der alte Dubslav von Stechlin, trägt den gleichen Namen wie der tatsächlich existierende nahegelegene See, der stimmungsvoll in die märkische Landschaft eingebettet ist. Der Roman spielt in der Zeit seiner Niederschrift. Leichthin geführte Unterhaltungen und tiefsinnige Gespräche vermitteln die Melancholie einer Spätzeit, voll Skepsis und doch versöhnlich. Die mit Sympathie gezeichnete Hauptfigur trägt Züge ihres Autors, der im Jahr nach der Veröffentlichung starb. Die Handlung rankt sich um das alte märkische Adelsgeschlecht von Stechlin, das am Stechlinsee im Ruppiner Land seinen Sitz hat.
Heinrich Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Er gilt als bedeutendster deutscher Vertreter des Realismus. In seinen Romanen, die großenteils erst nach seinem 60. Lebensjahr entstanden, charakterisiert er die Figuren, indem er ihre Erscheinung, ihre Umgebung und vor allem ihre Redeweise aus einer kritisch-liebevollen Distanz genau beschreibt.

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Effi Briest Jan 6, 2017

by Theodor Fontane, Joseph Rovan, André Coeuroy

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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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Theodor Fontane - Gesammelte Werke (German Edition) Mar 1, 2016

by Theodor Fontane

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Romane und weitere Werke des großen Realisten Theodor Fontane in der preigünstigen Sammelausgabe.

In den E-Book enthalten:

Romane und Novellen:
Effi Briest
Der Stechlin
Schach von Wuthenow
Vor dem Sturm
Die Poggenpuhls
Cécile
Unwiederbringlich
Quitt
Frau Jenny Treibel
Stine
L'Adultera
Irrungen, Wirrungen
Graf Petöfy
Grete Minde
Unterm Birnbaum
Mathilde Möhring
Ellernklipp

Reisetagebücher & Reiseberichte:

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
Die Grafschaft Ruppin
Das Oderland
Havelland
Spreeland
Fünf Schlösser
Jenseit des Tweed
Ein Sommer in London
Aus den Tagebüchern der Italienreise Oktober/November 1874
Kriegsberichte
Kriegsgefangen - Erlebtes 1870
Reisebriefe vom Kriegsschauplatz

Gedichte

Junker Dampf
Die große Karthause vor Papst Paul
Schloß Eger
Bienen-Winkelried
Die Schlacht am Cremmer-Damm
Der Quitzowen Fall und Untergang
Der Tod des letzten Grafen von Ruppin
Alte Fritz-Grenadiere
Prinz Louis Ferdinand
Berliner Spottvers
Guter Rat
Glück
Memento
Im Garten
"O trübe diese Tage nicht"
Herbstmorgen
Der Kranich
Bekenntnis
Ein Jäger
Alles still!
Einem Kranken
Frühling
Der erste Schnee
Verlobung
Winterabend und viele andere

Autobiographisches:

Das Schlachtfeld von Groß-Beeren
Von Zwanzig bis Dreißig
Meine Kinderjahre (Autobiographie)

100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1] Sep 27, 2020

by Alexandre Dumas, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodore Dreiser, Henri Barbusse, Honoré de Balzac, Louisa May Alcott, E. M. Forster, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, D. H. Lawrence, Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Gaston Leroux, Jack London, Arthur Machen, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Mary Shelley, Stendhal, Sun Tzu, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain, Theodor Fontane, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding, Blaise Pascal, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, Virginia Woolf

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This 1st volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:

Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady

Effi Briest (German Edition) Jun 15, 2019

by Theodor Fontane

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Der Sandmann: Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (German Edition) Jul 18, 2012

by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Rudolf Drux

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E.T.A. Hoffmanns Erzählung "Der Sandmann" erschien 1816 im 1.Teil seiner Nachtstücke. Das Spannungsvolle, Traumatische der Liebe Nathanaels zur Puppe Olimpia, das Ungeheure und Zwielichtige der Gestalt des Advokaten Coppelius/Coppola macht die romantische Erzählung zu einem Exempel moderner Bewusstseinserfahrung.

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Cécile (German Edition) Aug 2, 2021

by Theodor Fontane

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Man kann die eigene Vergangenheit nicht hinter sich lassen. Bei einer Reise begegnet das Ehepaar Cécile und Pierre von St. Arnaud dem Zivilingenieur Robert von Gordon. Schnell begeben sie sich auf gemeinsame Ausflüge. Das Interesse des Ingenieurs gilt vor allem der jungen Cécile. Sie scheint in Bezug auf viele Themen merkwürdig ungebildet. Ihren Ehemann Oberst Pierre scheint dies jedoch nicht weiter zu verwirren. Auch fällt Gordon auf, dass Cécile auf die Erwähnung sittenwidriger Umstände in Adelskreisen empfindlich reagiert. Dennoch kann er sich nicht von ihr fernhalten und will das Geheimnis um die junge Schönheit entschlüsseln. Doch manches sollte lieber ungeklärt bleiben ...-

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