Nana: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nana, credited to Émile Zola, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Nana by Émile Zola. (Translated by Burton Rascoe.) Read in English by Celine Major. Excerpt from Introduction: "Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it gives a memorable picture of the life of the tinsel underworld of the Paris theaters, night life, and its parasites. Perhaps Zola pursues Nana a bit too relentlessly: certainly his putting a period to her career by showing her as a putrefying corpse is more symbolic than is wholly necessary; but it remains a novel of truth and beauty, even if a beauty of a drab and often terrible sort. BURTON RASCOE - Summary by Celine Major

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nana
• Author credits: Émile Zola
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 16:13:16

Catalogue topics

• Historical Fiction
• France
• Les Rougon-Macquart
• théâtre des variétés

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Introduction — 13:11
2. 01 - Chapter 01 Part 1 — 34:47
3. 02 - Chapter 01 Part 2 — 31:27
4. 03 - Chapter 02 Part 1 — 25:10
5. 04 - Chapter 02 Part 2 — 28:30
6. 05 - Chapter 03 Part 1 — 25:45
7. 06 - Chapter 03 Part 2 — 23:56
8. 07 - Chapter 04 Part 1 — 42:22
9. 08 - Chapter 04 Part 2 — 32:45
10. 09 - Chapter 05 Part 1 — 40:36
11. 10 - Chapter 05 Part 2 — 38:21
12. 11 - Chapter 06 Part 1 — 40:34
13. 12 - Chapter 06 Part 2 — 38:43
14. 13 - Chapter 07 Part 1 — 35:12
15. 14 - Chapter 07 Part 2 — 34:42
16. 15 - Chapter 08 Part 1 — 43:29
17. 16 - Chapter 08 Part 2 — 41:29
18. 17 - Chapter 09 Part 1 — 28:51
19. 18 - Chapter 09 Part 2 — 31:43
20. 19 - Chapter 10 Part 1 — 37:27
21. 20 - Chapter 10 Part 2 — 32:36
22. 21 - Chapter 11 Part 1 — 41:34
23. 22 - Chapter 11 Part 2 — 39:46
24. 23 - Chapter 12 Part 1 — 26:52

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