Émile zola.

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Émile zola.
Nana. Paris, Georges Charpentier, 1880. In-12: red half-maroquin with long grain à la Bradel, smooth spine, untrimmed (Howland). First edition. From the sidewalk to the golds of power, the story of Nana reads like a parable on the corruption of Parisian society at the end of the Second Empire. A crude novel about the demi-monde and debauchery in the spheres of power, Nana ends with the miserable death of its heroine, while Napoleon III declares war on Prussia. "Nana turns into a myth, without ceasing to be real. This creation is Babylonian" (Flaubert, letter to Zola, 15 February 1880). One of the few copies printed on China paper, this one for Guy de Maupassant. According to the bibliographers, the edition on China paper was limited to five nominative copies: for Henry Céard, G. Charpentier, Léon Hennique, J.-K. Huysmans and Émile Zola himself, i.e. the publisher and four of the six authors of the Soirées de Medan published that same year 1880. Paul Alexis and Guy de Maupassant are therefore missing. Maupassant's copy has apparently never been mentioned. Occasionally heavy brown spots, rubbed headbands.
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