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  • The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

    by Jane Webb-Loudon ...
    The novel is set in the year 2126 and follows the story of Cheops, an Egyptian mummy who is revived in the future. Cheops finds himself in a world vastly different from the one he knew in ancient Egypt. The novel explores the clash between the ancient world and futuristic society, as well as the ethical and moral dilemmas that arise.In this future world, England is a constitutional monarchy ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mummy

    by Jane Webb Louden ...
    Written in 1827 by a woman barely out of her teens, this astonishing early work of science fiction leaps to the year 2126, where a resurrected Egyptian pharaoh returns to judge a future age.Decades before the imitators of Mary Shelley found their feet, Jane C. Loudon – later celebrated as a pioneering horticultural writer – conjured a twenty-second century of aerial travel, weather control, and ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mummy!

    by Jane Webb Loudon ...
    In the year 2126, England enjoyed peace and tranquillity under the absolute dominion of a female sovereign. Numerous changes had taken place for some centuries in the political state of the country, and several forms of government had been successively adopted and destroyed, till, as is generally the case after violent revolutions, they all settled down into an absolute monarchy. In the meantime, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

    by Jane Webb ...
    Series series Haunted Library Horror Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Mummy!

    A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

    by Jane Webb Loudon ...
    Series Book 20 - Collana Unforgettable
    The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 three-volume novel by Jane Webb (later Jane C. Loudon), early pioneer of science fiction. It is the first English-language story to feature a reanimated mummy. Cheops is brought back to life in the year 2126."I had written a strange, wild novel, called the Mummy, in which I had laid the scene in the twenty-second century, and attempted to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mummy!

    A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century

    by Jane Webb Loudon ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantasy
    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 ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Museum Environment Revisited

    Managing Heritage Environments in the 21st Century

    Edited by Jane Thompson Webb, Meagen Smith ...
    The Museum Environment Revisited is a valuable text that helps the reader understand collection care fundamentals and the preservation environment, as well as storage issues and decision-making.Presenting contributions from a range of experts working in heritage fields, this reimagining of Thomson’s seminal text explains the principles and techniques involved in controlling GLAM environments to ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • The Mummy!

    by Jane Webb, Loudon ...
    The Mummy!: Or 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 features one of the earliest known examples of a "Mummy's curse". After her father's death, making her an orphan at the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lady's Country Companion

    by Mrs. Jane Wells Webb Loudon ...
    Your letter, my dear Annie, informing me that you are about to be married and to settle in the country, has interested me exceedingly, as it reminds me of my own youth, when my first essays in housekeeping were made under circumstances very similar to those in which you will be placed. It is true I was not then married, but, as my mother was dead, the care of the house devolved on me; and I knew ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and Anecdotes of More than Five Hundred Animals

    by Mrs. Jane Wells Webb Loudon ...
    Mrs. Loudon’s Entertaining Naturalist has been so deservedly popular that the publishers, in preparing a new edition, have striven to render it still more worthy of the reputation it has obtained. For this purpose, it has been very thoroughly revised and enlarged by Mr. W. S. Dallas, Member of the Zoological Society, and Curator of the Museum of Natural History at York, and several illustrations ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sheep Farming for Meat and Wool

    Edited by Jane Court, Sue Hides, John Webb-Ware ...
    Sheep Farming for Meat and Wool contains practical, up-to-date information on sheep production and management for producers throughout temperate Australia. It is based on research and extension projects conducted over many years by the Department of Primary Industries and its predecessors and the University of Melbourne. The book covers business management, pasture growth and management, nutrition ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

    by Webb-Loudon, Jane ...
    "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" is a groundbreaking science fiction novel penned by Jane Webb Loudon in 1827. Set in the distant future of 2126, the narrative unfolds in a world dramatically reshaped by technological marvels. The central figure, Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy, is reanimated, thrust into a society where airships grace the skies and automatons cater to human ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD