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Burning Sands (novel)

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Burning Sands
First Edition (US)
AuthorArthur Weigall
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherT. Fisher Unwin (UK)
Grosset & Dunlap (US)
Publication date
1921
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Burning Sands is a 1921 dramatic adventure novel by the British writer Arthur Weigall. It was originally published in Britain under the alternative title The Dweller in the Desert.[1] Set in the Middle East, the novel was a riposte to the 1919 novel The Sheik by E. M. Hull.[2]

Film adaptation

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In 1922 it was adapted into an American silent film Burning Sands directed by George Melford and starring Wanda Hawley, Milton Sills and Jacqueline Logan.[3] It was produced by Paramount Pictures who were hoping to capitalise on the enormous success of the previous year's film version of The Sheik.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Trotter p.315
  2. ^ a b Michelakis & Wyke p.84
  3. ^ Goble p.493

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Trotter, David. English Novel in History, 1895–1920. Routledge, 2003.
  • Michelakis, Pantelis & Wyke, Maria. The Ancient World in Silent Cinema. Cambridge University Press, 2013.