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Victorian Humor
By Cathleen Medwick
Oprah.com   |   From the May 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
The Professor's Daughter
A mercilessly clever book for spring.
She’s a headstrong, naive young lady. He’s a debonair (think Fred Astaire in top hat and tails), sensitive (the strains of Mozart make him teary), 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. Together Lillian Bowell and Imhotep IV defy convention and their formidable fathers—a famed archaeologist and a long-defunct pharaoh, respectively—in The Professor’s Daughter (First Second), Emmanuel Guibert and Joann Sfar’s stylish graphic novel of love and intrigue in Victorian London. Proof that the perfect man may still be under wraps…
Printed from Oprah.com on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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