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Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. The Awakening is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism.

Une rencontre peut-elle tout changer ? Alyssa a vu son monde s’écrouler lorsque ses parents sont morts dans un stupide accident. Du jour au lendemain, elle s’est retrouvée tutrice de son frère et de sa sœur. Abandonnant tout pour s’occuper d’eux, la situation n’a fait qu’empirer, jusqu’à ce qu’elle n’ait plus qu’une seule solution : fuir pour sauver leurs vies. Ace a toujours rêvé de fonder une famille, pourtant chacune de ses relations s’est soldée par un échec. Il ne s’attendait pas à ce que la nouvelle amie de Mia réveille en lui un sentiment enfoui depuis longtemps.

In rural 1800s England, things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman. Emma is considered by many to be Austen's finest novel. The book has been adapted countless times to stage, film, and television.

From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion. Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). Her important short stories included "Desiree's Baby", a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana (published in 1893), "The Story of an Hour" (1894), and "The Storm "(1898).