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Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir--is now rendered in racy, stylish English.
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Nana, Émile Zola
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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- Nana
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Émile Zola
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 468
- Series
- Les Rougon-Macquart
- First published
- 1880
- Original title
- Nana
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir--is now rendered in racy, stylish English.