This book is in fair condition. Some shelf wear. Some age yellowing. Binding tight. Nana is the most widely known of the long series of violently realistic novels by Émile Zola about the Rougon-Macquart family. Through them he intended to represent different combinations of "good" and "bad" blood, to submit his characters to all kinds of situations, to demonstrate that the character and course of life of each human being is determined by heredity and environment. About the validity of his theories, critics have quarreled violently. But his influence on other writers as disparate as De Maupassant, Huysmans, George Moore, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, James T. Farrell, etc., has been profound. For Zola did succeed in producing novels of great strength and vividness, novels which present an arresting picture of the life of his time. Of all the novels in the Rougon-Macquart series, Nana has been the most popular. It is, indeed, one of the best-selling novels of all time. In its Роскт Book editions alone, it has sold nearly 3,000,000 copies.