NanaReadHowYouWant.com, 2006 - 328 من الصفحات "Nana" is a realistic novel written in spontaneous style. As the story begins we meet the protagonist Nana, a prostitute. The novel focusses on the behaviour of the wealthy and elite of Paris at a time when France was world renowned as the centre of adult entertainment. Zola has successfully captured the corruption of the high-class French in the mid-1800s. Engrossing! |
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... seemed to be glued to the entry , were reading them ; others , standing about , were engaged in talk , barring the doors of the house in so doing , while hard by the box office a thickset man with an extensive , close - shaven visage ...
... seemed to be glued to the entry , were reading them ; others , standing about , were engaged in talk , barring the doors of the house in so doing , while hard by the box office a thickset man with an extensive , close - shaven visage ...
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... seemed to be in sole possession of a stage box on the level of the stalls. But La Faloise examined Daguenet before anyone else, he being in occupation of a stall two rows in front of his own. Close to him, a very young man, seventeen ...
... seemed to be in sole possession of a stage box on the level of the stalls. But La Faloise examined Daguenet before anyone else, he being in occupation of a stall two rows in front of his own. Close to him, a very young man, seventeen ...
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... seemed to astound his cousin , he added : " You don't know Gaga ? She was the delight of the early years of Louis Philippe . Nowadays she drags her daughter about with her wherever she goes . " La Faloise never once glanced at the young ...
... seemed to astound his cousin , he added : " You don't know Gaga ? She was the delight of the early years of Louis Philippe . Nowadays she drags her daughter about with her wherever she goes . " La Faloise never once glanced at the young ...
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... seemed interminable . Jupiter in the course of it seemed never to be going to finish assembling the Council of Gods in order to submit thereto the deceived husband's requests . And still no Nana ! Was the management keeping Nana for the ...
... seemed interminable . Jupiter in the course of it seemed never to be going to finish assembling the Council of Gods in order to submit thereto the deceived husband's requests . And still no Nana ! Was the management keeping Nana for the ...
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... seemed exasperated . " It's disgusting that the public give such a reception to the first trollop that comes by . There'll soon be no more decent women on the stage . Yes , I shall end by forbidding Rose to play . " Fauchery could not ...
... seemed exasperated . " It's disgusting that the public give such a reception to the first trollop that comes by . There'll soon be no more decent women on the stage . Yes , I shall end by forbidding Rose to play . " Fauchery could not ...
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amid arms asked became began Beuville Blanche Blonde Venus Bordenave Bosc Boulevard Haussmann Caroline Hequet carriage Chezelles Clarisse corner Count Muffat Countess Sabine cried crowd cuckold curtain Daguenet dear dear boy door drawing room dressing room eyes face Faloise Fauchery fellow Fontan Foucarmont Fougeray front Gaga gaze gentlemen Georges girl glance glass grew hair hands head kiss knew La Faloise Labordette ladies laughing laughter little women looked Lucy Stewart Madame Maria Blond Marquis de Chouard Mignotte Mme Hugon Mme Lerat Mme Maloir Monsieur murmured Nana Nana's never night o'clock once Paris passage Passage des Panoramas prince Prulliere replied Rose Mignon round Satin seats seemed shadow shoulders shouted silence Simonne smile stage Steiner stood suddenly talking Tatan Nene theater There's things thought tomorrow turned Varietes Venot Venus Violaine voice waiting wanted whispered window woman women young
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الصفحة 20 - ... roams at eventide." From the second verse onward people looked at each other all over the house. Was this some jest, some wager on Bordenave's part? Never had a more tuneless voice been heard or one managed with less art. Her manager judged of her excellently; she certainly sang like a squirt. Nay, more, she didn't even know how to deport herself on the stage: she thrust her arms in front of her while she swayed her whole body to and fro in a manner which struck the audience as unbecoming and...
الصفحة 291 - He saw the ruin brought about by this kind of " leaven " — himself poisoned, his family destroyed, a bit of the social fabric cracking and crumbling. And, unable to take his eyes from the sight, he sat looking fixedly at her, striving to inspire himself with loathing for her nakedness. Nana no longer moved. With an arm behind her neck, one hand clasped in the other, and her elbows far apart, she was throwing back her head, so that he could see a fore-shortened reflection of her half-closed eyes,...
الصفحة 1 - CHAPTER I AT nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatre des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly-burning lustre.
الصفحة 84 - Foucarmont; you'll spoil all your pleasures that way." And he returned to the ladies with a laugh. Last scion of a great family, of feminine manners and witty tongue, he was at that time running through a fortune with a rage of life and appetite which nothing could appease.
الصفحة 98 - ... corners. The Count Muffat attracted to the house a series of functionaries, distinguished by the immaculate personal appearance which was at that time required of the men at the Tuileries. Among others there was the chief clerk, who still sat solitary in the middle of the room, with his closely-shorn cheeks, his vacant glance, and his coat so tight of fit that he could scarce venture to move. Almost all the young men and certain individuals with distinguished aristocratic manners were the Marquis...
الصفحة 7 - It had ended by his deciding to print the names of the two actresses in the same-sized type. But it wouldn't do to bother him. Whenever any of his little women, as he called them - Simonne or Clarisse, for instance wouldn't go the way he wanted her to he just up with his foot and caught her one in the rear. Otherwise life was impossible. Oh yes, he sold 'em; HE knew what they fetched, the wenches! "Tut!
الصفحة 98 - Madame du Joncquoy, besides four or five old gentlemen, who sat motionless in corners. The Count Muffat attracted to the house a series of functionaries, distinguished by the immaculate personal appearance which was at that time required of the men at the Tuileries. Among others there was the chief clerk, who still sat solitary in the middle of the room, with his closely-shorn cheeks, his vacant glance, and his coat so tight of fit that he could scarce venture to move. Almost all the young men and...
الصفحة 292 - Muffat's eyes followed this tender profile and marked how the outlines of the fair flesh vanished in golden gleams and how its rounded contours shone like silk in the candlelight. He thought of his old dread of Woman, of the Beast of the Scriptures, at once lewd and wild. Nana was all covered with fine hair; a russet...
الصفحة 105 - He mixed with the various groups, said something confidential to everyone, and walked away again with a sly wink and a secret signal or two. It looked as though he were giving out a watchword in that easy way of his. The news went round, the place of meeting was announced, while the ladies' sentimental dissertations on music served to conceal the small feverish rumour of these recruiting operations.
الصفحة 113 - Nana's very mole, down to the color of the hair. He could not refrain from whispering something about it in Vandeuvres's ear. Gad, it was true; the other had never noticed it before. And both men continued this comparison of Nana and the countess. They discovered a vague resemblance about the chin and the mouth, but the eyes were not at all alike.