How long does it take to read Nana?
Nana by Émile Zola takes about 8 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 9 of Les Rougon-Macquart
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About 8 hours 36 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1880. 469 pages, about 128,975 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 118 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Overview: Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, "the golden fly", rising out of the underworld to feed on society--a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others' disintegration and final collapse in 1890. Built around the book's scientific skeleton is a powerful, sensual atmosphere and a rich use of words which elevate the novel beyond the realistic platform into a "poem of male desires." Part of Zola's famed Rougon-Macquart series of novels, this is the portrait of the scandal of Parisian society--Nana, a goddess of love who ruthlessly uses her sexuality to obtain wealth and to send her ruined lovers to the gutter from which she ascended. A tragic heroine ranking with Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary. Originally published in 1880, this is a new edition.
Subjects: French fiction, Fiction, Prostitution in fiction, Hamburg., Prostitue, call-girl
