Nana Ed 2
Émile Zola, "Nana Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0198814267 | 2020 | 432 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0198814267 | 2020 | 432 pages | PDF | 6 MB
'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'
Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell – especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared.
Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was
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