Nana by Emile Zola audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In the glittering yet rotten heart of Paris under the Second Empire, Nana rises from the working-class streets to become the city's most notorious courtesan. Introduced amid the heat of the theater world, she is young, magnetic, and dangerous, a woman whose beauty turns desire into obsession and appetite into ruin. As financiers, aristocrats, politicians, and soldiers compete for her attention, Zola follows the ripple effect of Nana's presence through drawing rooms, racing tracks, and back alleys, exposing a society that prizes spectacle while hiding its corruption. Nana herself is no simple seductress: driven by hunger, pride, and the need to survive, she discovers how quickly power can shift when everyone wants to possess you. With a cast of men and women pulled into her orbit, the novel builds a relentless portrait of ambition, hypocrisy, and moral decay, asking who truly holds control in a world built on money and illusion. Bold, unsparing, and darkly vivid, Nana is a scandalous social panorama and a study of desire as a force that consumes both its target and its worshippers.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:11) Chapter 01

(00:47:58) Chapter 02

(01:19:25) Chapter 03

(01:44:35) Chapter 04

(02:13:05) Chapter 05

(02:38:50) Chapter 06

(03:02:46) Chapter 07

(03:45:08) Chapter 08

(04:17:53) Chapter 09

(04:58:29) Chapter 10

(05:36:50) Chapter 11

(06:17:24) Chapter 12

(06:56:07) Chapter 13

(07:31:19) Chapter 14

(08:06:01) Chapter 15

(08:49:30) Chapter 16

(09:30:59) Chapter 17

(09:59:50) Chapter 18

(10:31:33) Chapter 19

(11:09:00) Chapter 20

(11:41:36) Chapter 21

(12:23:10) Chapter 22

(13:02:56) Chapter 23

(13:29:48) Chapter 24

(13:56:19) Chapter 25

(14:27:58) Chapter 26

(15:00:57) Chapter 27

(15:37:07) Chapter 28

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