For 10 points, name this novel tracing the consequences of a lonely Prussian baroness's affair with Crampas after her teenage marriage to Geert von Innstetten, a work by Theodor Fontane.
In this novel, a woman who distrusts the fashion for "Bible jokes" is coaxed to play her husband music by Wagner, whom he loves for his anti-Semitism. On beach walks with this novel's protagonist, a man fated to die a soldier's death by a "gypsy prophecy" narrates a version of Heine's romance about Don Pedro starring the faithful dog Rollo. After learning that her husband has a history of telling ghost stories, this novel's protagonist begins to resent his "educating" her to fear the Chinese sailor's grave near their "haunted" house in Kessin, where she is advised by the Catholic servant (*) Roswitha. After a sleigh gets stuck in the "Slough" returning from the patriotic Forester Ring's banquet, this novel's protagonist kisses a Major whom her husband duels six years later. For 10 points, name this novel tracing the consequences of a lonely Prussian baroness's affair with Crampas after her teenage marriage to Geert von Innstetten, a work by Theodor Fontane.
In this novel, a woman who distrusts the fashion for "Bible jokes" is coaxed to play her husband music by Wagner, whom he loves for his anti-Semitism.
Effi Briest