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"Gentlemen prefer blondes"

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By Anita Loos
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A flippant, diary-style narrative follows a fashionable young woman who recounts travels, romances, and social adventures in high society. Through humorous episodes on voyages and stays in European cities, she pursues wealth and luxury while naïvely examining manners, gender expectations, and materialism. The episodic chapters mix satire and light observation, presenting comic misunderstandings, suitors, and practical schemes to secure adornments and social standing, all rendered in a playful first-person voice that exposes social pretensions with ironic charm.

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Title: “Gentlemen prefer blondes”: the illuminating diary of a professional lady
Author: Anita Loos (1889–1981) Info
Illustrator: Ralph Barton (1891–1931) Info
Language: English
Original publication date: 1925

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The numerous spelling mistakes in this work are intentional, and have thus been retained. Extra pages that duplicate the chapter headings have been omitted.

The reference in the copyright notice to Harper’s Bazar is correct. The name of that publication was changed to Harper’s Bazaar in 1930, after the publication of this book.

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