Project Gutenberg 2025-01-22 Public domain in the USA. 564 Roche, James Jeffrey 1847 1908 Roche, Jeffrey Herford, Oliver 1863 1935 Herford, O. (Oliver) 02028761 Her Majesty the King : $b A romance of the harem $aNew York :$bR. H. Russell, $c1898, copyright 1902. Reading ease score: 65.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Bob Taylor, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Her Majesty the King: A Romance of the Harem" by James Jeffrey Roche is a novel written in the late 19th century. This work appears to explore themes of love, governance, and societal expectations within a Middle Eastern palace setting, primarily focusing on the characters of Pasha Muley Mustapha and his wife, Kayenna. As the story unfolds, we observe their tumultuous relationship and the ensuing comedic and dramatic events resulting from their attempts to adjust to their roles and responsibilities. At the start of the narrative, we meet Pasha Muley Mustapha, a man finding himself at odds with his wife, Kayenna, over the upbringing of their child. He expresses his desire to allow their son the freedom to experience life outside the confines of the harem, while Kayenna vehemently opposes this idea, deciding instead to tightly control their child’s environment. This clash ignites a series of misunderstandings and accidental deceptions, particularly surrounding the birth of their child, whom the outside world believes to be a boy, when in fact the truth is far more complicated. The opening sets the stage for a humorous yet critical examination of love, authority, and the absurdities within family and court politics, promising a mix of wit and narrative intrigue as the tale progresses. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/hermajestykingr00rochiala/page/n3/mode/2up 20230810182355roche 1898 en en Harems -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Fiction 169924 2025-01-29T15:37:07.632693 text/html 142570 2025-01-22T20:18:57 text/html 2159728 2025-01-29T15:37:13.990648 application/epub+zip 2156361 2025-01-29T15:37:09.582662 application/epub+zip 399649 2025-01-29T15:37:08.365688 application/epub+zip 3088243 2025-01-29T15:37:17.080617 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3057969 2025-01-29T15:37:13.103691 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 136895 2025-01-29T15:37:07.117665 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 116949 2025-01-22T20:18:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14641 2025-01-29T15:37:17.218620 application/rdf+xml 32652 2025-01-29T15:37:08.600661 image/jpeg 3646 2025-01-29T15:37:08.480664 image/jpeg 2734223 2025-01-29T15:37:07.718712 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia