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Nana

By Émile Zola , George Holden

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
1972
ISBN
0140442634, 9780140442632
LCC
PZ3.Z74 N48,PQ2510 N48
Open Library ID
OL5318991M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1079517 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
480\400
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre 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.

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