{"product_id":"nana-2","title":"Nana","description":"\u003cem\u003e'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell -- especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was \u003cem\u003ela Ville Lumiere\u003c\/em\u003e, the glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana comes to symbolize the Second Empire regime itself in all its excesses; but in the final chapters, the narrator seems to suggest that the coming disaster is not so much a result of the corruption of the Empire, as of rampant female sexuality.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003710288061,"sku":"BS-TC0-814269","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780198814269-HD.jpg?v=1786894064","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/nana-2","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}