Questa serie narra le avventure di un'affascinante, seppur superficiale, cercatrice d'oro del Sud americano, la cui ingenua visione del mondo e l'insaziabile appetito per il lusso la conducono attraverso una serie di fughe indimenticabili. Con un'incredibile miscela di fascino e noncuranza, naviga la vita, collezionando gioielli e vivendo il mondo, spesso con risultati comici e inaspettati. Le narrazioni sono infuse di arguzia, assurdità e tagliente satira sociale, che espone l'ipocrisia dell'alta società. È una celebrazione dello spirito spensierato e dell'ottimismo illimitato in un mondo pieno di opportunità.
Lorelei Lee and her best friend Dorothy take the world by storm in their search for the ideal suitor, the richer the better. Lorelei meets an American millionaire who might just be the one. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was made into a delightful classic film starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (1953) and features the song 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend'.
“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.