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Nana (Oxford World's Classics)

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Nana (Oxford World's Classics)

Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan Ã©lite, was la Ville LumiÃ¨re, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siÃ¨cle 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 theatrical scene comes directly from his own experience - it was his own failure as a playwright which sent him back to novel-writing and Nana itself.

This new translation is an accurate and stylish rendering of Zola's original, which was first published in 1880.
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Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reissue
EISBN	9780191623110
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	464
PublicationDate	2009-01-29
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	2009-01-29
Studio	OUP Oxford

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