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.

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

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 edit

  1. ^ Hall p.167

Bibliography edit

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

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