This was the first of Fontane's sixteen novels, most of which became classics of the realist genre. Set in Berlin, shortly before the Prussians rebelled against Napolean, the novel resembles War and Peace. This World's Classics edition is the first and only available in English translation.
- ISBN10 0192816497
- ISBN13 9780192816498
- Publish Date 1 April 1985
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 744
- Language English