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Nana

Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger
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Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger

Nana

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

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    • The Experimental Novel by Émile Zola (1880)
    • Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley (2000)
    • Paris Babylon: Grandeur, Decadence and Revolution by John Bierman (2003)
    • Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin (1990)
    • Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding (2003)
    • Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer (1989)
    • The Gender of Modernity by Rita Felski (1995)
    • “Driven to Excess: Nana and Consumerism” by Brian Nelson (2005)
    • “Nana: Uses of the Female Body” by Brian Nelson (2001)
    • Reflecting on Nana by Bernice Chitnis (1991)
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