編輯備註 馮塔納在七十多歲時寫下本書，1894–95 年連載，1896 年出版成書。故事取材自真實事件：伊莉莎白．馮．阿登納的婚外情，最後在 1886 年以一場決鬥收場。艾菲十七歲時嫁給曾追求過她母親的殷士臺頓男爵。本書在德國是學校的固定讀物，法斯賓達於 1974 年將它拍成電影。
關於本書
Effi Briest is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane, published in book form in 1895. It can be thematically compared to other novels on 19th-century marriage from a female perspective, such as Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, which are also adultery tragedies.
讀者的聲音
Hardcover 上獲讚最多的書評（註明作者）。
“The story is a simple one. Unhappy marriage, adultery, tragedy. The novel is a classic perhaps because it predicted the doom of Prussian society a couple of decades early. Would Effi have landed a in a world of trouble half a century later? a doubt it.”