Frau Jenny Treibel

Frau Jenny Treibel

by Theodor Fontane

Frau Jenny Treibel is a novel by Theodor Fontane, published in 1892. It is a humorous and satirical look at bourgeois society in Berlin. The novel centers on the Treibel family, wealthy industrialists, and their attempts to marry their daughter, Corinna, to a wealthy man. However, Corinna falls in love with a poor professor, Wilibald Schmidt, and the novel follows the conflict between her family's desire for wealth and her desire for love.

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Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known tod...

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