viii 506 pages. A very attractive copy, clean, unmarked and solid. "Theodor Fontane (30 December 1819 - 20 September 1898) 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 today, only at age 58 after a career as a journalist. (Wikipedia)