The best-known work (made into a Fassbinder movie) by the author who also wrote "A Man of Honor" and "The Eighteenth of March." Regarded by some as the Prussian novelist par excellence, Fontane was an astute observer of mores and conventions in late 19th-century Berlin and Brandenburg. This short, disurbing love story is set in Bismarck's Germany.  (GER87, $14.00)