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Fontane's novella The Woman Taken in Adultery (1882) is remarkable not least for its portrayal, in wealthy, stultifying Berlin society in the 1880s, of an adultery with a happy ending. The story was inspired by a celebrated contemporary scandal and tells of Melanie van der Straaten and her affair with Rubehn, the young protege of Melanie's eccentric and good-humoured husband Ezel.

By contrast The Poggenpuhl Family (1896), a late masterpiece, centres on a birthday party given for Frau von Poggenpuhl and brilliantly evokes the lives of an aristocratic Berlin family struggling in genteel poverty. Theodor Fontane is one of nineteenth-century Germany's foremost stylists, and in these two short fictions his vivid portraiture and unforced dialogue, his mastery of understatement and emotional nuance are found to perfection.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
231

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Two Novellas: "the Woman Taken in Adultery" / "the Poggenpuhl Family" (Penguin Classics)
October 25, 2001, Penguin Books Ltd
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Two Novellas: The Woman Taken in Adultry; The Poggenpuhl Family (Penguin Classics)
March 1, 1996, Penguin Classics
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1995, Penguin Books
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Table of Contents

The woman taken in adultery
The Poggenpuhl family.

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London, New York
Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833/.7
Library of Congress
PT1863 .A713 1995, PT1863.A713 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 231 p. ;
Number of pages
231

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Open Library
OL563528M
ISBN 10
0140435247
LCCN
96147955, gb95084658
OCLC/WorldCat
33406252
Library Thing
423005
Goodreads
2231559

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