Effi Briest

The novel tells the story of Effi Briest, a seventeen-year-old girl who marries Baron Geert von Innstetten, a man twenty-one years her senior.

The marriage is marked by Effi's loneliness and isolation in the small town of Kessin, where she begins an affair with Major Crampas, a rival of her husband.

When the affair is discovered, Effi is divorced, loses custody of her daughter, and is shunned by society.

The novel explores themes of societal constraints, personal freedom, and the tragic consequences of Effi's actions, drawing parallels with other 19th-century works like 'Anna Karenina' and 'Madame Bovary'.