The Mummy! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781985618060)

Published anonymously in three volumes when the author was only seventeen years old, The Mummy is, as she describes it herself, a strange, wild novel that-to an audience nearer her future than when Loudon imagined it-is filled with striking similarities to our modern world, including a form of the internet. But it is also filled with brilliant flights of fancy: her court ladies wear hair ornaments of controlled flame; surgeons and lawyers may be steam-powered automatons; people holiday by moving their entire home on rails. The visionary technological setting contrasts with a morality seemingly gone awry as it falls to the reanimated mummy Cheops to try to find a role in this corrupted society. A lost curio of Victorian futurism waiting to be discovered, The Mummy is as bizarre and entertaining as it's premise promises-and more.

Author: Jane Loudon
ISBN-10: 1985618060
ISBN-13: 9781985618060
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2018
Pages: 580
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.17d