title: Nana (Oxford World's Classics)
author: mile Zola
description: 'Douglas Parmee's translation of Nana is another thoroughly researched and highly crafted job which has caught the raciness of the original. It has a substantial Introduction which evokes in fine detail the flashy, pleasure-loving society of the Second Empire.'<br />Joy Newton, University of Glasgow, French Studies, Vol. 47, Part 3<br /><br />'Three Classic tales of sexual passion, perversion, and corruption have been added to the rapidly increasing World's Classics collection, whose repertoire of nineteenth-century French novels is now impressive. The price and format of these volumes make them an obvious choice for the reader<br />approaching them in translation, the more so since each is accompanied by a helpful general introduction ... the reader is likely to get better vaqlue here than from other translation currently in print.'<br />Timothy Unwin, University of Western Australia, MLR, 89./2, 1994
zlib_text: **Table of Contents**
  
    
  
  _From the Pages of Nana_
  
  [ _Title Page_](bano_9781411432741_oeb_tp_r1.html)
  
   _Copyright Page_
  
   _Émile Zola_
  
   _The World of Émile Zola and Nana_
  
   _Introduction_
  
    
  
  Nana
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
    
  
  _**From the Pages of**_  
  **Nana**
  
  Nana, very tall and very plump for her eighteen years, in the white tunic of a
  goddess, and with her beautiful golden hair floating over her shoulders,
  walked towards the foot-lights with calm self-possession, smiling at the crowd
  before her. Her lips parted, and she commenced her great song: (page 17)
  
   _“When Venus takes an evening stroll_ —”
  
  Everything betokened the damsel abandoned too quickly by her first genuine
  protector, and fallen back into the clutches of unscrupulous lovers; a most
  difficult debut miscarried, and trammelled with a loss of credit and threats
  of evict