xxvi, 409 p., [35] leaves of plates: ill. (some col. ); 29 cm. Heritage Press. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.
Paperback. 413 pp. Introduction by Henri Peyre. A solid copy with very little wear. "The French novelist's classic study of a prostitute's dissolute existence and spiritual disintegration reflects his concern with the influence of heredity and environment."
Stated first print. Some cover, corner, crease. Pages very good. Classic cover art. Nana 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 of Babylon! ' Boulevard society is presented with painstaking attention to detail, and Zola's documentation of the contemporary...489 pages. Stamp inside cover.
Pictorial cloth boards are aging, spinecover tanned. Prior owner name stamped on feb. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. This large book will require extra shipping charges for Priority or International shipping.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 545 pages. Full green cloth boards. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/2"h. Modern Library #142. Rockwell Kent torch bearer design on endpapers and embossed on cover. No date listed, circa 1950.
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