The Mummy‪!‬

Jane Webb's The Mummy is a boldly imaginative voyage into the twenty-second century, where science, politics, and the uncanny collide. Framed by a self-aware narrator determined to invent a novel unlike any other, the book abandons stock heroes and familiar plots in favor of a future chronicle revealed by a mysterious spirit: a transformed world of new governments, startling discoveries, and expanded knowledge, yet still haunted by the same follies and passions of human nature. Against this speculative backdrop, the story follows the Montagu family, contrasting the proud soldier Edmund with his dreamy, philosophical brother Edric, whose detachment from practical life leaves him increasingly at odds with his father's hopes. From country-house domesticity to war news, prison escape, and a perilous flight down the Nile, the novel moves through adventure, intrigue, and supernatural rumor with restless energy. Along the way, Rosabella's break with the manipulative Father Morris exposes ambition, guilt, and obsession in a bitter personal reckoning. The result is a striking early work of speculative fiction, ending on a dark, ominous note that suggests the ancient and the future alike remain subject to mortality, mystery, and human error. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.