{"product_id":"nana-mile-zola-9780198814269","title":"Nana","description":"\u003cem\u003e'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell -- especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was \u003cem\u003ela Ville Lumiere\u003c\/em\u003e, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana comes to symbolize the Second Empire regime itself in all its excesses; but in the final chapters, the narrator seems to suggest that the coming disaster is not so much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e ﾉmile Zola, Helen Constantine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198814267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198814269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.64h x 5.04w x 0.87d","brand":"ﾉmile Zola","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045095600383,"sku":"9780198814269","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca5064a2-bf5d-457f-8101-214e385bd3b2.jpg?v=1684976707","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nana-mile-zola-9780198814269","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}