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Nana tells the story of the rise of Nana Coupeau from a street prostitute to a high class cocotte (courtesan) during the final years of the Second French Empire. Through her performance in La blonde Venus, a fictional operetta, she attracts the attention of society and proceeds to destroy every man that she encounters. Nana is the ninth volume of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series and was published in 1880. The novel depicts the moral corruption that Zola believed was the cause of the downfall of the Second Empire.
  • ISBN10 1471064239
  • ISBN13 9781471064234
  • Publish Date 19 January 2012 (first published December 1957)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format eBook (OEB)
  • Language English