Nana

Nana, brought up in the slums of Paris, has a brief career as a mediocre actress before tasting success as a courtesan. In spite of being vulgar and ignorant, her sexuality appeals to many rich and powerful men whose fortunes she heartily plunders leading many of them to ruin and even suicide.Nana is one of a sequence of twenty novels that constitute Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle. It was first written in French (1880) and later translated into English (1884).