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But, almost twenty years after her departure, her daughter Anne writes to her: Kate's husband has died and the daughter wants to find her mother. Back in America, Kate builds an idyllic home with Anne, which only a man could disrupt...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eIn this 1925 novel, Edith Wharton returns to a theme dear to her: the tension between an individual's desires and the weight of social conventions. 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Two different worlds then meet, an enthusiastic and carefree young woman facing a cold and distant baron. Imprisoned in an unhappy marriage, isolated from the world, repressed by a conservative society, Effi begins a relationship as passionate as it is secret with a military officer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eLike Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary, the heroine rushes towards her tragic destiny, refusing to submit and abandon her emotional, sexual, and even political freedom. 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