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Effi Briest (German pronunciation: [ˈɛfi ˈbʁiːst]) is a realist novel by Theodor Fontane.Published in book form in 1895, Effi Briest marks both a watershed and a climax in the poetic realism of literature.
Effie Leland Wilder (August 28, 1909 – July 19, 2007) was an American homemaker and writer. The first book she wrote was published when she was 85 years old, it was titled Out to Pasture . Personal life
List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of Australian crime-related books and media; List of anonymously published works; List of autobiographies; Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include:
Effie Lee Newsome (January 16, 1885 – 1979), born Mary Effie Lee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a Harlem Renaissance writer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area. [ 2 ]
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing ...
1930 in literature – William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon; Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit; Carolyn Keene's The Secret of the Old Clock (first in the Nancy Drew stories); Vladimir Nabokov's The Defence; Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men; Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth becomes ...