The Key of Life
First US edition
AuthorFrancis Brett Young
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherHeinemann (UK)
Knopf (US)
Publication date
1928
Media typePrint

The Key of Life is a 1928 novel by the British writer Francis Brett Young.[1] It was part of a group of cultural works that acknowledged a new Egyptomania in the wake of the discovery of Tutankhamun tomb by Howard Carter in 1922.

Ruth Morgan, a young woman living in a village in the Welsh borders, falls in love with an archaeologist working on a nearby dig after he falls ill. She follows him to Egypt where he is employed on a major excavation.

References

  1. Hall p.167

Bibliography

  • Michael Hall. Francis Brett Young. Seren, 1997.


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