50 pages 1 hour read

Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger

Nana

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

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  • The Experimental Novel by Émile Zola (1880)
  • Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley (2000)
  • Paris Babylon: Grandeur, Decadence and Revolution by John Bierman (2003)
  • Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin (1990)
  • Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding (2003)
  • Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer (1989)
  • The Gender of Modernity by Rita Felski (1995)
  • “Driven to Excess: Nana and Consumerism” by Brian Nelson (2005)
  • Nana: Uses of the Female Body” by Brian Nelson (2001)
  • Reflecting on Nana by Bernice Chitnis (1991)