Two Novellas: The Woman Taken in Adultery; The Poggenpuhl Family by Theodor Fontane

Two Novellas: The Woman Taken in Adultery; The Poggenpuhl Family

Theodor Fontane with Gabriele Annan (Translator)

231 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
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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 an...

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