Written by Edith Maud Hull

The Sheik - A Novel

The Sheik is a romance novel written by British novelist Edith Maud Hull and it became her magnum opus and eventually adapted to film starring Rudolph Valentino. Considered as desert romance, the runaway success of this novel lead the author to write sequels such as The Sons of the Sheik, The Shadow of the East, The Desert Healer and The Capt..