The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 three-volume novel written by Jane Webb (later Jane C. Loudon). It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced technology and was the first English-language story to feature a reanimated mummy.After her father's death, making her an orphan at the age of 17, Webb found that it would be necessary to do something for her support. She had written a strange, wild novel, called The Mummy, in which she had laid the scene in the twenty-second century, and attempted to predict the state of improvement to which the country might possibly arrive.
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- Release Date 01/06/2022
- Author Jane Loudon
- Language English
- Company Independently published
- Weight 2.03 pounds
- Dimensions 6 x 1.39 x 9 inches
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