Description
Description
Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.
About the Author
About the Author
Anita Loos was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Born in 1889, she was writing movie scripts by the time she was twelve and became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood at the age of twenty-five. She is best known for her 1925 comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which made her a Jazz Age celebrity in her own right. She also wrote the screenplay for the classic film The Women (1939), as well as a Broadway production of Colette's Gigi (1951). Loos died in 1981.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Cheeky . . . Think: the zany surrealism of the Marx Brothers crossed with the desire--both sexual and material--of Sex and the City. No wonder James Joyce was one of the novel's many highbrow modernist fans. . . . In this retro era of cottagecore, trad wives and puffed-sleeved prairie dresses galore, how fun it is to travel back to the dawn of the modern age and revel in the giddy freedoms of flapperdom."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Just hilarious, and very brief--you'll read it today and you might finish it tonight because you're not going to be able to put it down. . . . Much more satirical than you would imagine from the movie, much darker in its way . . . Just a brilliant, brilliant book."--Bill Goldstein, NBC's Weekend Today in New York "Anita Loos's sharp and very funny send-up of the 1920s jet set--which, of course, was made into the 1953 classic starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe--turns 100 this year, but as this special edition (with a new introduction by Marlowe Granados) reminds us, great storytelling never goes out of style. Even at a century old, Loos's portraits of millionaires, criminals, and not-so-dumb blondes feels fresh and important. Should you rewatch the film? Absolutely. But perhaps reread the book first."--Town & Country "[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes] is so funny it made my hair go even more platinum."--Opulent Tips
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Modern Library
Pub date:
2025-08-05
Length:
176 pages
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