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The Lion Tamer
The Lion Tamer (Barbar Cartland's Library of Love, 24) [Import] [Paperback]
181 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1928
About the author
E.M. Hull
31 books22 followersSee also Edith Maude Hull.
Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada, and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool.
As a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria, the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book entitled 'Six Weeks in Algeria' (1930).
She dabbled at writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. 'The Sheik', her initial effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing it among the top ten best sellers for both of the years 1921 and 1922 in the magazine 'Publishers Weekly'.
'The Sheik' quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. Sales further increased when Paramount released a film version with the same title in 1921 and this launched Rudolph Valentino into cinema immortality as the greatest lover of the silent screen.
She also wrote a follow-up to 'The Sheik', 'The Sons of the Sheik' (1925) and she wrote six other novels of the 'desert romance' variety. In 2005 these novels were still classed by some publishers as 'erotic fiction'!
In addition she wrote a travelogue 'Camping in the Sahara' (1926) that included photographs by her daughter Cecil.
She died at age 66, on 11 February 1947 in Hazelwood, in the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire.
Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada, and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool.
As a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria, the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book entitled 'Six Weeks in Algeria' (1930).
She dabbled at writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. 'The Sheik', her initial effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing it among the top ten best sellers for both of the years 1921 and 1922 in the magazine 'Publishers Weekly'.
'The Sheik' quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. Sales further increased when Paramount released a film version with the same title in 1921 and this launched Rudolph Valentino into cinema immortality as the greatest lover of the silent screen.
She also wrote a follow-up to 'The Sheik', 'The Sons of the Sheik' (1925) and she wrote six other novels of the 'desert romance' variety. In 2005 these novels were still classed by some publishers as 'erotic fiction'!
In addition she wrote a travelogue 'Camping in the Sahara' (1926) that included photographs by her daughter Cecil.
She died at age 66, on 11 February 1947 in Hazelwood, in the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire.
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June 23, 2019
Es el libro que menos me ha interesado de los 4 que he leído de esta autora hasta ahora, siendo The Sheikh y The Shadow of the East dos auténticas joyas. En esta novela, el protagonista es por primera vez ligeramente distinto a los anteriores: menos taciturno y huraño pero no por eso más accesible.
Me resulta muy extraño que la protagonista de la cual él se enamora perdidamente tenga 16 años (16!!) pues es un auténtico bebé que ha vivido muy aislada e ignora muchas cosas de la vida. Dónde reside el encanto de Paul (la prota)? Ni idea.
Es el único libro de Hull que me parece que tiene un toque antiguo.
Me resulta muy extraño que la protagonista de la cual él se enamora perdidamente tenga 16 años (16!!) pues es un auténtico bebé que ha vivido muy aislada e ignora muchas cosas de la vida. Dónde reside el encanto de Paul (la prota)? Ni idea.
Es el único libro de Hull que me parece que tiene un toque antiguo.
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