sentences:  Originally published as a series of short sketches in "Harper's Bazaar" magazine, the work was published in book form by Boni & Liveright in 1925.Although dismissed by critics as "too light in texture to be very enduring," Loos's book was a runaway best seller, becoming the second-best selling title of 1926, and printed throughout the world in over thirteen different languages.The book earned the praise of writer Edith Wharton, who dubbed it "the great American novel."