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We guarantee the authenticity of our items. All items are guaranteed as described and may be returned for any reason within 30 days. Please notify us before mailing a return. We work hard to meet our ethical responsibility to describe our material accurately. Read more: Olin-Ammentorp, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture. A rollicking adventure of the Roaring Twenties, scarce in the first issue and dust jacket, especially signed. The 1949 musical introduced the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, " memorably performed by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film. Its tongue-in-cheek satire is nevertheless a perceptive commentary on the roles power and money can play in expanding or limiting women's freedoms, a theme which made Edith Wharton a vocal admirer. Wildly popular, all copies of the first edition sold out in a single day it serves as a useful contrast to the melancholy symbolism of THE GREAT GATSBY published the same year. One of the great comic novels of the early 20th century, this work follows in the tradition of humorists like Mark Twain with the conceit of the American innocent abroad.
"What Loos did was identify a new female American archetype, one that not only survives today, but thrives." – Candace Bushnell, author of SEX AND THE CITY
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