Nana by Emile Zola (1956)

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Nana by Emile Zola (1956)
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Nana by Emile Zola (1956)

Emile Zola
Edition year 1956
Binding Silk
Illustrator Marcel Vertès
Translator Charles Duff
Weight 1.5 Kg
Pages 387
Dimensions 25.3 × 19.2 cm

Edition details

Nana by Émile Zola. Translated by Charles Duff. 15 etchings by Marcel Vertès. Bound in purple moire silk. Glassine dust-jacket and grey slipcase. 387pp. 25.3x19.2cm

About the book

Émile Zola's Nana follows the spectacular rise and eventual downfall of Nana Coupeau, a beautiful young actress and courtesan in Second Empire Paris. Although she possesses little theatrical talent, her physical beauty and magnetic personality allow her to captivate wealthy and powerful men. Through Nana's relationships with aristocrats, financiers and members of fashionable society, Zola presents a devastating portrait of decadence, hypocrisy and moral corruption. The novel combines social realism with powerful symbolism, using Nana's destructive influence as a reflection of a society consumed by wealth, pleasure and excess.

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