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Nana Volume 1

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
8 hours 7 minutes
ISBN
9781802562552
Published
12 January 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Emile Zola
  • Zola
  • Nana
  • naturalism
  • social order
  • realism
  • France
  • french
  • psychological
  • philosophical

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Description

Nana, by Emile Zola, is a gripping exploration of the corrupting influence of power and wealth in late 19th-century France. The story revolves around Nana, a charismatic and ambitious woman who manipulates society's elite for her own gain. Zola's vivid portrayal of Parisian high society, political intrigue, and moral decay is on full display as Nana navigates her way through the city's power structures. The novel offers a critical examination of the societal ills and the destructive consequences of unchecked ambition.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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