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Excerpt from The Mummy, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of the Twenty-Second CenturyI 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 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 as I sauntered listlessly down a shady lane, one fine evening in June; "I must have something new, something quite out of the beaten path: - but what? - ay, that was the question.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.