'You will gurgle, and chuckle at the fastest, merriest burlesque contributed to literature since the crackling satires of Dean Swift.' (Because really, when you've got a heroine with a name like Verbeena Mayonnaise, you're already halfway to hilarity, amiright?). The 03 refers to LVs section number, not to the section chapter number in the text.

Hull's 1919 novel, a huge international best-seller that spawned many imitations, was given a serious boost in cultural currency when Rudolph Valentino donned a headdress and flared his nostrils at Agnes Ayres in the 1921 film adaptation - and then, as now, the parodies came roaring down the pike soon after. Hull, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this year, was one of the most successful romance novels of its time, inspiring two hit silent films starring Rudolph Valentino as well as a slew of copy-cats in the desert romance genre. Hull's 'The Sheik' and other potboilers in that genre. The Sheik is a 1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.

The sheik by em hull