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Nana (Penguin Classics)
by ?mile Zola

Nana (Penguin Classics)
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Author: ?mile Zola
Introduction: George Holden
Edition: Paperback
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1972-09-30
ISBN: 0140442634
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Book Review: Girl Power in the 1860s
Summary: 5 Stars

No drugs, no rock 'n' roll but plenty of sex. Great entertainment in itself, this book is best read as a sequel to "L'Assommoir" ("Drunkard") whose tragic downtrodden heroine can be said, in a way, to have got her revenge on society through her daughter, Nana. You might say it's a case of the underclass striking back and one wonders how today's acting and modelling scene compares with Second Empire Paris. Someone once said that every woman is sitting on a gold mine and Nana certainly proves it. Trouble is, she also proves the old saying "easy come, easy go". What would have happened if they'd had smallpox jabs in those days?

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