Émile Zola: Nana (Oxford World's Classics) [2009] paperback Condition:New 'So clear and true

'So clear and true

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Thus begins the seamless blend of fact and fiction that is Samarkand

she becomes a successful highway woman - until her luck runs out

Émile Zola: Nana (Oxford World's Classics) [2009] paperback Condition:New 'So clear and trueNana 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