Loos, Anita

Loos, Anita. Kiss Hollywood Good-By. The Viking Press, New York. 1974. Lowell, James Russell. A Fable for the Critics. G.P. Putnam, New York. 1848. Lubbock, Sir John. The Beauties of Nature. Macmillan and Co., New York. 1893. 

Unlike Lorelei in Anita Loos s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Doris fails to market herself successfully and reaches the edge of the abyss. But she is saved by Ernst, an older educated man whose wife has left him and who... 

See Katharina von Ankum, Material girls consumer culture and the New Woman in Anita Loos s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Irmgard Keun s Das kunstseidene Mddchen, Colloquia Germanica, 27 (1994), 159-72. 

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