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Leila: or The Siege of Granada is a historical romance novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1838.The novel is set in Granada Spain in the Middle Ages — beginning in the summer of 1491. It was originally published in an expensive form with many engraved illustrations. The preface to the 1860 edition explains that the novel has been less popular than his other works of fiction due to the prejudice against literary works that are thought to owe their value in part to the illustrations.