The Two Trick Pony
Independent Online Bookshop
Translated by Mike Mitchell
CHF 15.50
● READY TO SHIP
Ships from Morges within 1 to 2 working days, via Swiss Post.
Shipping across Switzerland and Liechtenstein · Free shipping from CHF 49
MAKE IT YOUR COPY
Stamped by hand on the half-title page, here in Morges.
Our traditional bookseller's stamp, applied by hand to the half-title page of your book before it ships. A small, complimentary detail from TTP — entirely optional.
ABOUT THE BOOK
'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.
DETAILS
READ NEXT
The Bridge Over the Drina
Ivo Andrić
A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge Over the Drina won Andrić the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat
Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis
A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas.
NOT QUITE YOUR BOOK?
Let us help you find the right one.
