No Way Back

A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming, cheerful Count Holk is delighted to be called away from his solemn wife to the distant court of a Danish princess. Swept up in the romance of his new, lively surroundings at a ''castle by the sea'', the Count does not realize that not everyone there is what they seem - and that a ...