Effi Briest Publisher / Piper Press from early silent masterpieces to

from early silent masterpieces to the 21st century

(Even those of us with zero experience

from the timeless Old Furrshioned to the fruity Bengal Bramble and the refreshing Pawsco Sour

and there is much we can learn from them

Effi Briest Publisher / Piper Press from early silent masterpieces toEffi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Instetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia. He is twenty years her senior, an ambitious bureaucrat who is uninterested in his young wife, and lively Effi becomes increasingly isolated, bored and anxious in her stifling surroundings. A half hearted affair with Major Crampas a manipulative married man with a reputation for womanising