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The plot is set in the middle of the 19th century in Paris, and tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plans the destruction of her extended family.
"Eugénie Grandet" (1833), part of Balzac's Human Comedy, is a realistic novel that explores greed, family relationships, and the sacrifices of love in provincial French society.
These stories deal with different topics, although most deal with different criminal acts, from fraud and fortune-telling to marriage fraud and murder.
It is a novel about condemnation, but also about women's freedom to choose the life they want and enjoy it - because life is dangerous and fleeting, and therefore there is no point in denying yourself pleasure or adventure while you are here.
Big families is Drion's best novel. In it, the writer, in a very vivid and striking way, gave a cross-section of French society after the First World War: some characters of the novel become like living witnesses of their time.
A documentary novel that follows the experiences of women in the maternity ward of Copenhagen City Hospital over the course of one month. The novel, in the form of a diary entry, follows the pregnancy and childbirth of six women at a gynecological clinic.