Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anita Loos
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: March 16-July 10, 1925
- Setting: New York City, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Budapest
- Principal Characters: Lorelei Lee, Dorothy, Jennings, Gus Eisman, Sir Francis Beekman, Henry H. Spoffard
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Farce
- Subjects: Women, Stereotypes, Materialism, Naivete, Pretensions
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, London, England, Vienna, Austria, Budapest, Hungary, Munich, Germany
The Novel
Subtitled The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, Anita Loos’s novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is the story of Lorelei Lee, a former actress and social climber who makes her way into the glittering social life of the Jazz Age. Told in the first person, the novel takes the form of Lorelei’s diary and records events in the final months before her marriage to the wealthy Henry Spoffard.
Lorelei’s adventures began at a secretarial college in her native city of Little Rock, Arkansas. Although she had been enrolled for only one week, Lorelei...
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