Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

If any American fictional character of the 20th century seems likely to be immortal, it is Anita Loos's Lorelei Lee, the not-so-dumb blonde portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe. Here is the delirious 1925 Jazz-Age classic that no less an authority than Edith Wharton called "THE great American novel".