Jane Webb eBooks

The Mummy!A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century. E-book. Formato EPUB Jane Webb Loudon   -  Iperwriters Editore, 2023  - 

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 predict the state of improvement to which this country might possibly arrive".The Mummy, opera del 1827 di Jane Webb Loudon, scrittrice e pioniera della fantascienza, è il primo romanzo in lingua inglese a rappresentare una mummia vivente... nientemeno che Cheope, risuscitato nel 2026.