Mencken's fondness for less-than-brainy blondes, and he was so impressed that he encouraged her to expand and publish it. The stories AROUND it are better: Loos originally drafted it as a short story to spoof her friend H.L. A monstrous bestseller in the years after its publication in 1925 (the inspiration for a hit Broadway show starring Carol Channing in 1949, and several movie versions - most famously, the 1953 Howard Hawks film starring Marilyn Monroe), the book seems dated and labored today. Written in diary form, the story closely imitates a gold-digger/flapper's voice and diction ('I sold a red baloon to Harry Lauder the famous Scotch gentleman who is the famous Scotch tenor for 20 pounds'). With her girlfriend Dorothy Shaw, who is even dumber and more loud of mouth, Lorelei gets into and out of more scrapes and close calls (but holds onto bracelets and gifts and a diamond tiara) than you can shake a stick at. The artwork used for the cover is 'Pastel Portrait of a Woman' from the April, 1919 edition of the magazine McClure's.Lorelei Lee is 'just a simple girl from Little Rock, Arkansas' who manages to charm the world (or at least a significant portion of the wealthy male population in New York, London, Paris, Vienna, and 'Buda Pest') in her search for diamonds, money, male companionship - and, oh, incidentally, opportunities to improve her brains. Production notes: This ebook of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was published by Global Grey on the 26th January 2022. This book has 38,785 words, 52 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1925. The numerous spelling mistakes in this work are intentional, and have thus been retained. Upon it's publication, the book was an instant success, and has been adapted into both a musical and two films - a silent movie in 1928, and the 1953 version starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe. Loos wrote the novel after being inspired by a train journey, during which she struggled with bags with no help forthcoming from the men in the carriage - but then watched as the same men clamoured to assist a blonde woman who dropped the book she was reading. Narrated in the form of a diary (complete with spelling errors) by a blonde flapper called Lorelei Lee, the book tells her story of working in Hollywood under the direction of a Chicago businessman, Gus Eisman, and her exploits in New York and Europe with other men and the gifts they are willing to buy her in return for her affections.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady is a comic novel by American author Anita Loos, first published in 1925. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita LoosĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle (mobi and AZW3) ebook formats.

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