- Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Fiction, Women archaelogists, Women archaeologists
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Elizabeth Peters
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Atheneum, Blackstone Audio Inc, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061999215
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“"My dear Peabody," said Emerson, pray correct me if I am mistaken; but I sense a diminution of that restless ardor for living that is so noted a characteristic of yours, particularly upon occasions such as this.”
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