Nana tells the story of Anna "Nana" Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appeared near the end of L'Assommoir (1877), Zola's earlier novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, where she is the daughter of an abusive drunk. At the conclusion of that novel, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution. Keep reading...
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Emile Zola(1840-1902)
Novelist, journalist, playwright, poet
He was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known
practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important
contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.