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  • The Lady's Country Companion

    Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally

    by Jane Loudon ...
    The Lady's Country Companion; Or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally is a charming and practical guidebook first published in 1845, designed to assist women in making the most of rural living. Written by Mrs. Jane Loudon, a renowned Victorian author and horticulturist, the book offers a comprehensive and accessible manual for ladies seeking to embrace the pleasures and responsibilities of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Mummy!

    by Jane C. Loudon ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Mummy!

    Enriched edition. Unearthed secrets, ancient curses, and forbidden knowledge in a chilling gothic tale of mystery and the macabre

    by Jane C. Loudon, Wren Sharp ...
    In Jane C. Loudon's "The Mummy!", readers are transported to a gothic landscape that intertwines the macabre with themes of resurrection and the supernatural. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century Britain, the novel navigates the complexities of love, loss, and the allure of the unknown through a narrative style that blends elements of romanticism with early science fiction. Loudon's prose is ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • The Mummy! ; Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

    by Jane C. Loudon ...
    The Mummy! : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 novel written by Jane C. Loudon. It concerns an Egyptian mummy named Cheops who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel borrows many themes and ideas from another popular science fiction novel written by a female author of the period, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, as well as ideas about a future filled with advanced ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • The Mummy! (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Sci-Fi Novel

    by Jane C. Loudon, Blythe Norbourne ...
    Jane C. Loudon's The Mummy! (1827) is a remarkable early work of speculative fiction, subtitled A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century. Reanimating the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops, Loudon combines Gothic resurrection motifs with futuristic satire, imagining technological marvels such as automated vehicles, climate control, and advanced social systems. Written in the wake of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, ... Read more

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

    by Mrs. Jane Wells Webb Loudon ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.29 USD 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

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  • Botany for Ladies (Illustrated)

    A Popular Introduction to the Natural System of Plants

    by Jane Loudon ...
    When I was a child, I never could learn Botany. There was something in the Linnean system (the only one then taught) excessively repugnant to me; I never could remember the different classes and orders, and after several attempts the study was given up as one too difficult for me to master. When I married, however, I soon found the necessity of knowing something of Botany, as well as of Gardening. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Botany for Ladies

    A Popular Introduction to the Natural System of Plants, According to the Classification of De Candolle (Illustrations)

    by Jane Loudon ...
    Example in this ebookWhen I was a child, I never could learn Botany. There was something in the Linnean system (the only one then taught) excessively repugnant to me; I never could remember the different classes and orders, and after several attempts the study was given up as one too difficult for me to master. When I married, however, I soon found the necessity of knowing something of Botany, as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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 USD

  • 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

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