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    Lost in a Pyramid
    Lost in a Pyramid
    Lost in a Pyramid
    Audiobook26 minutes

    Lost in a Pyramid

    Written by Louisa May Alcott

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When Paul Forsyth and his archeologist friend Professor Niles are exploring the Cheops pyramid in Egypt, they become separated from their guide and lose their way in the labyrinthine tunnel network. Finding themselves close to a female mummy, they decide to create a fire using the wooden case in the hope of attracting the attention of the Egyptian guides.

    Professor Niles is keen to unwrap the mummy and see what items may have been hidden in the bandages. They do indeed find treasures...one of which is a golden box containing some mysterious seeds...and another is a scrap of parchment casting a curse on anyone who disturbs the rest of the mummy, who in life had been a sorceress. Shortly afterwards, Forsyth and Niles are rescued...but as they discover over the following months, the curse of the mummy has been irrevocably unleashed....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateDec 4, 2013
    ISBN9781467675703
    Lost in a Pyramid
    Author

    Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott was a 19th-century American novelist best known for her novel, Little Women, as well as its well-loved sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women is renowned as one of the very first classics of children’s literature, and remains a popular masterpiece today.

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      These are two of Louisa May Alcott’s shortest short stories and two of her best.“Perilous Play” is about the effects of taking drugs. The group of characters involved are bored, until the doctor among them offers what first appear to be bonbons, but the sweet-looking items in fact contain hashish.I expected the tale to adopt a nineteenth-century approach of, “Just say no!” To point it does, yet in another way it hints that maybe it’s worth a try! The story shows both the danger of taking drugs and the potential benefits and, as a result, the narrative does not prove predictable as I suspected it would.“The Mummy’s Curse”, as the title suggests, is a dark tale. This one is so short that I can’t say too much without giving the whole game away, but despite its shortness, the author packs in enough detail and suspense to make it an engaging story.Together, these two tales again confirm for me the extent of Louisa May Alcott’s talent and versatility as a writer.