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"Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde Lorelei Lee in the flapper days of 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world. Gentlemen Prefer Blondesfollows Lorelei and her best friend, Dorothy, from Hollywood to Manhattan to Paris and London, pursued by eager suitors all the while. In "the Central of Europe," with a new diamond tiara in her handbag, Lorelei meets a traveling American millionaire who just might be the one. She retires her diary, but not for long, because, as she writes in the opening pages of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, "it is bright ideas that keep the home fires burning, and prevent a divorce from taking all of the bloom off Romance." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.… (más)
Anita Loos narra las hazañas de una pareja de amigas, la rubia Lorelei Lee y la morena Dorothy Shaw, dos auténticas depredadoras en el marco del puritanismo y la mojigatería de la Norteamérica de la década de 1920, cuyo más característico emblema era la Ley Seca. Ambas causan estragos por donde pasan: Lorelei conquista industriales, intelectuales, aristócratas, fiscales del distrito y hasta al mismísimo doctor «Froid», al que conoce en Viena y que le recomienda cultivar, ya que no tiene ninguna, algunas inhibiciones. Dorothy, siempre con su tendencia a enamorarse de quien no le conviene, y siempre, según su amiga, menos «refinada», será en todo caso capaz de divertir al príncipe de Gales enseñándole unas cuantas palabrotas. Los fabulosos engaños de este memorable par de pícaras se leen, en los pocos momentos en que uno puede parar de reírse, como grandiosas victorias sobre una sociedad que, realmente, no merece otra cosa que ser estafada.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To John Emerson
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
A gentleman friend and I were dining at the Ritz last evening and he said that if I took a pencil and a paper and put down all of my thoughts it would make a book.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Fate Keeps on Happening
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And if i do manage to get Dorothy into the Social Register, I shall really have to believe that the world is quite a good place to live in, even in the case of a girl like Dorothy.
"Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde Lorelei Lee in the flapper days of 1925, forging a new archetype for the modern world. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes follows Lorelei and her best friend, Dorothy, from Hollywood to Manhattan to Paris and London, pursued by eager suitors all the while. In "the Central of Europe," with a new diamond tiara in her handbag, Lorelei meets a traveling American millionaire who just might be the one. She retires her diary, but not for long, because, as she writes in the opening pages of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, "it is bright ideas that keep the home fires burning, and prevent a divorce from taking all of the bloom off Romance." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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