Nana
Émile Zola
Play
Length 16 h 13 min
Chapters 28
First published 1922
Excerpt from Introduction:
"Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it gives a memorable picture of the life of the tinsel underworld of the Paris theaters, night life, and its parasites. Perhaps Zola pursues Nana a bit too relentlessly: certainly his putting a period to her career by showing her as a putrefying corpse is more symbolic than is wholly necessary; but it remains a novel of truth and beauty, even if a beauty of a drab and often terrible sort.
Summary by Burton Rascoe / Celine Major
Chapters
1
Introduction Read by Celine Major 13:11
2
Chapter 01 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 31:27
3
Chapter 02 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 25:10
4
Chapter 02 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 28:30
5
Chapter 03 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 25:45
6
Chapter 03 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 23:56
7
Chapter 04 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 42:22
8
Chapter 04 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 32:45
9
Chapter 05 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 40:36
10
Chapter 05 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 38:21
11
Chapter 06 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 40:34
12
Chapter 06 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 38:43
13
Chapter 07 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 35:12
14
Chapter 07 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 34:42
15
Chapter 08 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 43:29
16
Chapter 08 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 41:29
17
Chapter 09 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 28:51
18
Chapter 09 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 31:43
19
Chapter 10 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 37:27
20
Chapter 10 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 32:36
21
Chapter 11 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 41:34
22
Chapter 11 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 39:46
23
Chapter 12 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 26:52
24
Chapter 12 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 26:31
25
Chapter 13 Part 1 Read by Celine Major 31:39
26
Chapter 13 Part 2 Read by Celine Major 32:59
27
Chapter 13 Part 3 Read by Celine Major 36:10
28
Chapter 14 Read by Celine Major 36:09
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