Author: Mrs. Loudon (Jane)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminist fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Mummy!
Author: Mrs. Loudon (Jane)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminist fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Mummy!
Author: LoudonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020371363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this early work of science fiction, the author explores the idea of reanimation and its consequences. The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is a gripping and thought-provoking adventure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Mummy!
Author: Jane C. LoudonPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726611341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
One of the earliest sci-fi novels in English literature "The Mummy!" is futuristic and entertaining; a must read not only for sci-fi enthusiasts but those who love 19th century literature. Influenced and inspired perhaps by the unwrapping of Egyptian mummies in London and Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein", the female author of just 17 years old, Loudon, takes us on a pioneering adventure set in the 22nd century. It’s the year 2126 and the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops is brought back to life by a mad scientist. We follow the reanimated mummy’s journey to England, his encounters with people he befriends and his shrewd advice on politics and life. Discover the depths of Loudon’s imagination with her future filled with inventions and technology, predictions that are almost a reality today; automaton lawyers and surgeons, movable houses and a new mail system shot out of cannons. Her ideas on politics and social attitudes are way ahead of her time; feminism is touched upon with women ruling the country and wearing trousers. A pioneer in the field of science fiction, Jane Wells Web Loudon (1807-1858) was an English author best known for her classic novel "The Mummy!"; inspired by her reading of novels, archeological findings, and imagination. She was one of the founding names in the genre, and was later deemed a Gothic, horror, or fantasy writer. The majority of her work, however, revolves around gardening and writing one of the first gardening manuals targeted at young women.
The Mummy!
Author: Jane Webb LoudonPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486821145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Inspired by Frankenstein, this early work of science fiction has a futuristic setting of 2126 and its "monster," an intelligent mummy, serves as a friend and counselor to mankind.
The Mummy! a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century Annotated
Author: Jane Webb LoudonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1828 science-fiction novel written by Jane Webb-Loudon. It tells the tale of 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. Originally published in 3 volumes, this edition has all volumes in one.
The Mummy!
Author: Mrs. Loudon (Jane)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780472065745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Long-awaited reprint of a rare nineteenth-century science fiction novel with a feminist perspective.
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
Author: Mrs. (Jane) LoudonThe Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
Author: Jane WebbPublisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1464215294
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Frankenstein wasn't the only classic horror novel created by a woman. Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government. In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances. The Mummy! envisions a world in which automatons perform surgery, undersea tunnels connect England and Ireland, weather-control devices provide crop irrigation, and messages are transmitted with the speed of cannonball fire. The first novel to feature the concept of a living mummy, this pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction. Other books in the Haunted Library of Horror Classics series: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux The Beetle by Richard Marsh Vathek by William Beckford The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror by Arthur Conan Doyle Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The Mummy A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
Author: Mrs. LoudonPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
I have long wished to write a novel, but I could not determine what it was to be about. I could not bear any thing common-place, and I did not know what to do for a hero. Heroes are generally so much alike, so monotonous, so dreadfully insipid—so completely brothers of one race, with the family likeness so amazingly strong—"This will not do for me," thought I as I sauntered listlessly down a shady lane, one fine evening in June; "I must have something new, something quite out of the beaten path:—but what?"—ay, that was the question. In vain did I rack my brains—in vain did I search the storehouse of my memory: I could think of nothing that had not been thought of before.
The Mummy!
Author: Jane C. LoudonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 novel by Jane C. Loudon in which an Egyptian mummy is brought back to life in the 22nd century and wrecks havoc on society. This is the second book in the three-volume set.