PC Nana

Zola, Emile

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‘Nana’ is an evocation of the glittering, corrupt world of the Second French Empire, where prostitution played an important part at all levels.

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Publish Date: 26/07/1973
ISBN: 9780140442632 Category: Tags: ,

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Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. 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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Weight 330 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 20 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

469

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

843.8 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K