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Nana. Translated with an introduction by George Holden.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Penguin classicsPublication details: [Harmondsworth, Eng., Baltimore] Penguin Books [1972]Description: 469 p. 19 cmISBN: - 0140442634
- 843/.8
- PZ3.Z74 N48 PQ2510
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Main Library | Fiction | Zola, Émile | RM 9 | Available | Some water damage on top corners of first 50 pages | 33111002992762 |
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Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the The tre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked outrage on its publication in 1880, with its heroine damned as 'the most crude and bestial sort of whore', yes the language of the novel makes Nana almost a mythical figure- a destructive force preying on a corrupt society.