About this title: Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced Flaubert to almost inarticulate gasps of admiration: 'Chapter 14, unsurpassable! ...Yes! ...Christ Almighty! ...Incomparable ...Straight out of Babylon!' Boulevard society is presented with painstaking attention to detail, and Zola's documentation of the contemporary ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Fasquelle, Paris
Date Published: 1938
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. 2 v. 19 cm. Bibliothèque-Charpentier. On cover: 289. mille. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Library, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean, crisp, and unmarked. Pages yellowing, binding intact but loosening, a very nice reading copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780140442632ISBN:0140442634
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, French. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 480 p. Penguin Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1942 9th printing, of May, 1941, lst ed.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, NYC
Date Published: 1941
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Covers lightly 'rubbed'. Pp lightly 'tanned', spine creased. NO stains, tears, writing, in tight book. Text in English, from the French. Glued binding. 489 pp. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Consolidated Book Publishers
Date Published: 1937
Description: Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Pages and cover clean. Binding tight. Pages aged. Cover worn at edges, corners and spine bumped and worn. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780140442632ISBN:0140442634
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
"Really loved this book (read in French). Zola is another amazing French author who makes French literature so much more acessible. Hope to read all 'Les Rougon-Macquart' books. Nana is an unforgetable character, easily compared to Becky Sharp of "Vanity Fair"."
"It took me a little while to get into this book, particularly because I originally found the writing style of Zola and/or his translator a bit tedious, but overall I enjoyed it."
"What Can I say, I love reading Zola's thought provoking novels that are an interesting comment on the times through the lives of common people. This was the second book of Zola's that I read, the first Therese Racquin. This is a bold story about Nana, a prostitute in France in the late 1800's. A true classic."
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