The Story of the Amulet (Psammead #3)

Author(s): E. Nesbit

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The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead--the "it" in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in The Phoenix and the Carpet. Gore Vidal writes, "It is a time machine story, only the device is not a machine but an Egyptian amulet whose other half is lost in the past. By saying certain powerful words, the amulet becomes a gate through which the children are able to visit the past or future. ... a story of considerable beauty."

PUBLICATION DUE JULY 2019

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  • : 9781847497901
  • : Alma Classics
  • : Alma Classics
  • : 0.01
  • : February 2019
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  • : E. Nesbit
  • : Paperback
  • : 1907
  • : Ella Okstad
  • : English
  • : [Fic]
  • : 288