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Motel of the mysteries

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An edition of Motel of the mysteries (1979)

Motel of the mysteries

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.6 (5 ratings) ·
  • 94 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
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In the year 4022, an amateur archeologist makes an important discovery in the long buried country of Usa that has many humorous parallels to Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
95

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Subjects

Humor, Modern Civilization, Antiquities, Anecdotes, Fiction in English, Egyptology, Tutankhamun, Motel Life, Archeology, Fiction, humorous, general, Humor, form, parodies, Pictorial American wit and humor, Fiction, humorous, Civilization, modern--humor, Civilization, modern--1950---humor, Antiquities--humor, Pn6231.c46 m3, 818/.5/407

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Times

1970s, 1950-

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Cover of: Motel of the Mysteries
Motel of the Mysteries
Jul 10, 2008, Paw Prints
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Motel of the Mysteries
1993, Scholastic Inc.
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Motel of the Mysteries
January 1988, Houghton Mifflin (T)
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Motel of the Mysteries
1979, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Motel of the Mysteries
1979, Hutchinson
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Motel of the mysteries
1979, Houghton Mifflin
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1979, ?
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Motel of the mysteries
1979, Houghton Mifflin
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Motel of the Mysteries
1979, Harcourt Children's Books
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Motel of the mysteries
1979, Houghton Mifflin
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Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5407
Library of Congress
PN6231.C46 M3

The Physical Object

Pagination
95 p. :
Number of pages
95

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24770907M
ISBN 10
0395284244, 0395284252, 0613918487
ISBN 13
9780395284247, 9780395284254, 9780613918480
LCCN
79014860
OCLC/WorldCat
5029734

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An arch and witty tale purporting to be the dissertation of some future archeologists' discovery and exploration of the "Toot and C'mon Motel" (any resemblance to a Holiday Inn and the Egyptian pharaoh is entirely intentional.) In the process, they get just about every detail wrong, surmising it to be a necropolis - does the "Plant That Would Not Die" symbolize eternal life or… wait a minute, isn't that just the ubiquitous plastic philodendron in every room? - and along the way cast doubt on what we really think we "know" about ancient Egypt. It's all enhanced by Macaulay's detailed and meticulous pen-and-ink sketches. Hilarious and memorable.

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