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Motel of the mysteries

  • David Macaulay

3.60

5 ratings

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.

Genres

  • 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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About the author

  • David Macaulay

    born 2 December 1946

    4.05

    20 ratings · 96 works

Editions

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    Paw Prints

    Jul 10, 2008

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1979

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1979

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    ?

    1979

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Scholastic Inc.

1993

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1979

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    Hutchinson

    1979

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    Houghton Mifflin (T)

    January 1988

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    1979

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    Harcourt Children's Books

    1979