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Edith Wharton called Anita Loos' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes "the great American novel" and declared its author a genius. Winston Churchill, William Faulkner, George Santayana and Benito Mussolini read it – so did James Joyce, whose failing eyesight led him to select his reading carefully. The 1925 bestseller sold out the day it hit the stores and earned Loos more than a million dollars (17 million in today's money) in royalties.Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power—more relevant today than ever—can come in the most alluring of packages. Lorelei Lee, the small-town girl from Little Rock, has become one of the most timeless characters in American fiction. Outrageous and charming, this not-so-dumb blonde has been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe and has become the archetype of the footloose, good-hearted gold digger (not that she sees herself that way). Masquerading as her diaries, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei as she entertains suitors across Europe before returning home to marry a millionaire. In this delightfully droll and witty book, Lorelei’s glamorous pragmatism shines, as does Anita Loos’s mastery of irony and dia

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Author

Anita Loos

Published

1925

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Humour

Rating

3.63 / 5 (103 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14