Nana (Version 2), Book Nine of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Author: first_name: Émile
last_name: Zola
Language: English
Year: 1922

Anna Coupeau, known as Nana, makes her debut in 1867 at the Theatre de Varietes, and is an instant sensation.  It is as a prostitute, however, that she becomes infamous in Paris, as a destroyer of men. She meets with an ignominious end at the very eve of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. - Summary by Mark Leder