Description
This is a Boundary Bay Classics edition of the classic novel The Mummy! by Jane C. Loudon. Set in the year 2126, the novel imagines a future England ruled by a female sovereign and transformed by fantastical technologies, into which the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Cheops is unexpectedly reanimated by a young scientist's experiment. As the restored mummy moves through a world of dynastic intrigue, foreign invasion, and scientific ambition, the novel combines gothic horror with speculative satire on politics and progress. Published in 1827 when its author was only twenty, it is now recognised as one of the earliest works of science fiction in English.
