The Sheik
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Book Description
This annotated Edith Hull romance novel has been enhanced for your ebook reading pleasure. We've taken pains to remove ebook formatting errors in the source material. This book includes the following:
- a bibliography of Edith Hull's fiction
- a biography of Edith Hull
- a filmography of Edith Hull's works that were made into movies
- Photographs the The Sheik starring Rudolph Va...
MoreThis annotated Edith Hull romance novel has been enhanced for your ebook reading pleasure. We've taken pains to remove ebook formatting errors in the source material. This book includes the following:
- a bibliography of Edith Hull's fiction
- a biography of Edith Hull
- a filmography of Edith Hull's works that were made into movies
- Photographs the The Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino
- expert formatting for optimal display on your Kindle or Kindle app
- a hyperlinked table of contents
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
"Critic's jaws dropped and they quickly proclaimed the book pornography. Readers bought it by the cartload and Mrs. Hull went on to write several more books, all set in Egypt and all featuring masterful men and masochistic women." -- Ellen Micheletti
THE SHEIK
The Sheik launched Edith Hull's literary career and was an immediate and controversial sensation. The Sheik is the story of Diana Mayo, a selfish English girl who who will not listen to anyone. Refusing marriage offers, she travels on her own out into the Egyptian desert where she is discovered and captured by Sheik Ali Ben Hassan.
Where other romances coyly hinted at sexuality, The Sheik includes the rape of Diana as the Sheik takes her again and again. Will she find feelings for the Sheik who brutalized her? Over 1.2 million readers learned the answer when the book was published in 1919.
And of course it was later made into a silent film that established Rudolf Valentino as the leading Hollywood sex symbol of the 1920's during in his brief film career.
The Sheik is a timeless book of passion and romance that captivates readers today just as it did back when movies were silent and readers were full of sighs.
EXCERPT
"The flaming light of desire burning in his eyes turned her sick and faint. Her body throbbed with the consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her. She understood his purpose with a horror that made each separate nerve in her system shrink against the understanding that had come to her under the consuming fire of his ardent gaze, and in the fierce embrace that was drawing her shaking limbs closer and closer to the man's own pulsating body. "Oh you brute! You brute!", she wailed, until his kisses silenced her."
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