{"product_id":"nana-9780198814269","title":"Nana","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\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\u003cbr\u003eterrible 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\u003cbr\u003ecorruption. 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13284398\"\u003eÉmile Zola\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198814269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198814267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC004000\"\u003eClassics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÉmile Zola\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Constantine \u003c\/strong\u003etaught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. Her volumes of translated stories, \u003cem\u003eParis Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParis Metro Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eParis Street Tales\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFrench Tales\u003c\/em\u003e are published by Oxford University Press. She is also the general editor of a series of 'City\u003cbr\u003eTales' for OUP. Her translations include \u003cem\u003eMademoiselle de Maupin\u003c\/em\u003e by Theophile Gautier (Penguin), \u003cem\u003eDangerous Liaisons\u003c\/em\u003e by Choderlos de Laclos (Penguin), \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Ass's Skin\u003c\/em\u003e by Balzac, \u003cem\u003eThe Conquest of Plassans\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e by Zola and Flaubert's \u003cem\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/em\u003e, all for the Oxford World's\u003cbr\u003eClassics. She formerly co-edited the magazine \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry in Translation \u003c\/em\u003ewith her husband, the writer David Constantine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Nelson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor (French Studies and Translation Studies) at Monash University, Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to French Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Zola\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZola and the Bourgeoisie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003eand translations of Zola's \u003cem\u003eHis Excellency Eugene Rougon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e (with Julie Rose), \u003cem\u003eThe Fortune of the Rougons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Belly of Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Kill\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePot Luck\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ladies' Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e for the Oxford World's Classics. He has also translated \u003cem\u003eSwann in Love\u003c\/em\u003e by Marcel Proust for the series. He was awarded the New\u003cbr\u003eSouth Wales Premier's Prize for Translation in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42687606587629,"sku":"9780198814269","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_459a3b19-e02f-4301-99a2-0e5eda2773fc.jpg?v=1649782552","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/nana-9780198814269","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}