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Title	:	The Sheik (The Sheik Saga #1)
Author	:	E.M. Hull
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 254 pages
Published	:	1923 by George Newnes Ltd. (first published 1919)
Categories	:	Romance. Classics. Historical Romance. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

The Sheik (The Sheik Saga #1)

E.M. Hull

Hardcover | Pages: 254 pages

Rating: 3.31 | 1262 Users | 213 Reviews

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Diana Mayo is young, beautiful, wealthy--and independent. Bored by the eligible bachelors and endless parties of the English aristocracy, she arranges for a horseback trek through the Algerian desert. Two days into her adventure, Diana is kidnapped by the powerful Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, who forces her into submission. Diana tries desperately to resist but finds herself falling in love with this dark and handsome stranger.

Only when a rival chieftain steals Diana away does the Sheik realize that what he feels for her is more than mere passion. He has been conquered--and risks everything to get her back. The power of love reaches across the desert sands, leading to the thrilling and unexpected conclusion.

One of the most widely read novels of the 1920s, and forever fixed in the popular imagination in the film version starring the irresistible Rudolph Valentino, The Sheik is recognized as the immediate precursor to the modern romance novel. When first published there was nothing like it: To readers the story was scandalous, exotic, and all-consuming; to such critics as the New York Times the book was "shocking," although written with "a high degree of literary skill." In the author's native England, the bestselling book was labeled "poisonously salacious" by the Literary Review and banned from some communities. But the public kept reading.

The influence of The Sheik on romance writers and readers continues to resonate. Despite controversy over its portrayal of sexual exploitation as a means to love, The Sheik remains a popular classic for its representation of the social order of its time, capturing contemporary attitudes toward colonialism as well as female power and independence that still strike a chord with readers today.

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Original Title:	The Sheik
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sheik Saga #1
Characters:	Diana Mayo, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan
Setting:	Algeria,1919

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When I stated my love affair with reading, Barbara Cartland was the BOMB!! As a 12 year old young girl, I couldn't get enough of her books.So when I read a story about The Sheik being the Book that scandalized the world in the 1920's when it was released ( was even BANNED in certain areas). I so had to take a trip down memory land and read itNow, 36 years later, I can honestly say that I'm still in love with Barbara Cartland. The Sheik was a wonderful, sweet and exciting story. And yes, by

So, I never reviewed this back when I read it. Oops. This is THE original bodice ripper. Despite being (correctly) labeled as jazz age chick-lit, it's very well-written...which amuses me, given the level of repetitive trash that passes for 'independent publishing' these days.** This was the 1920s version of 50 Shades -- but unlike Ana & Christian, Diana & her Sheik really grabbed my attention & kept me eager for a HEA. Hull imprints a good depth of character in the leads, which more

I can't honestly say this is the best book I have ever read or anything. Yet at the same time I just don't know how I could possibly rate this any less that 5 stars! I enjoyed this so much! It has everything you could possibly want from a cheesy romance novel! Heroine raised as a boy and unaware of her womanly charms, kidnapping, rape (off page of course! this was written in 1918), brutal hero, attempted escape, another kidnapping, an attempted rape, murder, murder, attempted murder, hero near

The Sheik. It's rumor to be the godfather of bodice rippers, the book women whispered about in the days it was published and finally I got my grubby little hands on it! Ok it was the ebook version but hey I got it and that's what counts.Coming into the book I knew it was rumored to have horrible violence , rape and of course a simmer hatred that turns to love. The heroine, Diane Mayo is haughty unconventional and a bit of a naive adventurist. She's traveled the world unknowingly think man and

This dates to the same period as several novels by Henry Kitchell Webster, whose works I enjoy very much. I was curious to see whether this author had the same sense of life and ability to write. Short answer: nope. Long answer: too much description (especially of the heroine's feelings), too little dialog & action. Descriptions of persons & scenery are often cliches. Point of view switches distractingly and without warning from one character to another. It's conceivable that the famous

Ah yes, the book that launched a million Harlequins. Imagine, there'd have been no The Playboy Sheikh's Virgin Stable-Girl if not for Edith Maude Hull's 1918 bodice ripper, which turned sheiks into literary catnip forever, for all time, and - I'm pretty confident - into infinity and beyond.This is the original "virgin ravished by sheik" romance, with all the required alpha male swagger and conceit, as well as the shamed heroine's vows of eternal hatred eventually blossoming into consuming love.

I'd really, really like to think that this book was supposed to be a stealthy deconstruction of abusive relationships, shuffled into exotic parts because it would have been easier to present a "barbarian" than an Englishman as an abuser (view spoiler)[and then there was a Take That moment where the vile beast turned out to be (half) Englishman after all (hide spoiler)]; a look into what pushes a woman to persuade herself into caring for the abuser and consequently a very fine presentation of how