Nana (Oxford World's Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0192836706 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, March 1999
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a...
Read More
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-si`ecle 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.
Read Less