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Nana (World Classics) Kindle Edition

by Emile Zola (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
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Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. We first meet Nana at the tender age of fifteen, and all of a sudden, in the good-natured child the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.
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    582 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Interactive Media
  5. Publication date
    November 15, 2013
  6. File size
    1617 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07FDDD3HG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Interactive Media (November 15, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1617 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 582 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1677228105
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

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3.5 out of 5 stars
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alex burga
5.0 out of 5 stars A kind of existentialist
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2021
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Zola is a master of evoking ideas inside his readers and burning beautiful imagery on their souls. Each book is so different in topic however; skill is always prevalent.
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Roberta J. Salamon
2.0 out of 5 stars Not So Much!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2012
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Have been able to really get into it but am holding on and will keep getting back to it. Must have something that I have missed to have been around this long.

Meant to say HAVE NOT been able to really get into it. Too fast on the keys. Maybe I should slow up when I am reading. lol
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M. Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars Nana
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2011
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This is one of my favorite novels, so I knew the story was good already. As far as the book itself goes it was in perfect condition and came quickly with no problems. If you like classic literature then you may love this book <3
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Michael H
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2017
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Misleading description: not in Swedish.
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Brian D. Fitzpatrick
5.0 out of 5 stars The dark side of human nature- a cunning and duplicitous strumpet gone awry
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2007
Emile (Edouard-Charles-Antoine)Zola
(born- April 2,Paris-died Sep 28,1902
French Novelest and critic

Nana is part of Zola's very ambitious project,the LES ROUGON-MAQUART series which he is best known for.A sequence of 20 novels that documents French life through the violent Rouqons and the passive Maquarts.Zola is the founder of the application of naturalism in literature.
"...In literature,NATURALISM extended the traditional concepts of REALISM,aiming at and inspired by the principles and methods of natural science,especially DARWINISM,whose principles were adapted to literature and art.In literature,NATURALISM extended the traditional REALISM,aiming at an even more faithful,pseudoscientific representation of reality,
presented without moral judgment of character.Character was based upon heredity and the role that environment played in human life.Zola the spokesman for literary naturalism, was also the first to champion his findings to EDOUARD MANET (which subesquently led to the Impressionists movement)..." (from Columbia Encylopedia-excerts from a profile of Emile Zola)
Nana is a fascinating read.But be prepared for the unsavory genuis of her personality,most notably with men.It was as though it was her first and foremost duty to extract all the benefits of her 'victims', those who she got involved with,and in turn after extracting all the coffer,would execute her insidious and capricious style to ultimately ruin lives,and humiliate and pepper her 'victims' with a bizzare facade of false sentiments that shaded her core ingeniously with a vicious and gratutious hostility.Mind you,this is only one of the multiple themes that are generated throughout this novel.It's frankly, a character profile of a rather nasty 'she-devil'.If you didn't 'catch wind' of her intentions in the early stages,without a thick skin in your commesirations with this 'madame',your were 'toast',quickly succuming to her vitriolic behaviour and a multiple assortment of agendas,and it was no 'picnic in the park'.It is brilliantly written,Zola was a remarkable observer of people.He brings you right into the innards of the human psyche.

I also would highly recommend THE EARTH,THE BELLY OF PARIS,LA BETTE HUMAINE,L'ASSOMMOIR(a study of alcholism),and GERMINAL,\.
Enjoy.Health and Happiness.
Brian Fitzpatrick
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Thomas C. Vincent
2.0 out of 5 stars Nana
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014
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This book is a very hard read for a 21st Century individual! Too wordy, and too many people! I would not recommend!
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W. Green
1.0 out of 5 stars Shallow and Boring
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2021
The characters are stupid, shallow, and boring. Perhaps at the time of it's writing the risque behavior might have been titillating, but in a modern context it offers nothing there either. It doesn't even have a quality of writing which might merit appreciation. This book certainly does not deserve a reputation as an enduring classic.
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P.S. Davila
5.0 out of 5 stars Was a gift
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2013
Gave it as a gift and the person loved it. Only they dd say the translation is little different. But was worth reading and having it in english
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Barbara Milne
1.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2020
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English a little stilted
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