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12 mo. hardcover, VG in blue boards in edgeworn brown pictorial dj, 545 pp. A superb study of a milieu, rendered in the scrupulous and not always-despite detractors-heavy manner of the naturalist school. 545 pp. plust list of Modern Lib. giants. Intro. By Ernest Boyd, dated 1927. Complete and Unabridged in One Volume.

Paperback. 413 pp. Introduction by Henri Peyre. A solid copy with very little wear. "The French novelist's classic study of a prostitute's dissolute existence and spiritual disintegration reflects his concern with the influence of heredity and environment.

Stated first print. Some cover, corner, crease. Pages very good. Classic cover art. Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced Flaubert to almost inarticulate gasps of admiration: 'Chapter 14, unsurpassable! ...Yes! ...Christ Almighty! ...Incomparable...Straight out of Babylon! ' Boulevard society is presented with painstaking attention to detail, and Zola's documentation of the contemporary...489 pages. Stamp inside cover.

Good vintage paperback wear to spine and back cover.

New York. 1950. Modern Library. Reprinted Hardcover Edition. Very Good in Green Boards And Dustjacket W/ A Bookseller Tag On The Bottom Front Inside Flap. Introduction by Ernest Boyd. Translated from the French. 545 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe France Literature Translated Modern Library World Literature. DESCRIPTION-Banned in England in 1888 for its so-called obscenity, NANA has since come to be regarded the highest achievement among all the novels of the school of naturalist writers. Its author is generally acknowledged as the originator from whom the English realists and our own Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser and many later American novelists have derived their greatest influence. Regardless of the sensational attention paid this novel and apart from its unique place in literary history, Nana lives as a work of fiction by its own vigor and the incomparable skill and fidelity with which it is written and with which it reflects actual life. inventory #27022.