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Available
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Series
Collection
Publication
Dover Publications (2018), Edition: Illustrated, 320 pages
Description
Classic Literature. Fantasy. Juvenile Fiction. HTML: The final novel in the beloved series about the adventure-seeking Bastable children, The Story of the Amulet follows the group as they are sent away to live at a boarding house while their parents are abroad. There, the children discover a mysterious charm that enables them to travel back in history. This magical tale will delight readers young and old alike..
Media reviews
The New York Review of Books
In The Story of the Amulet Nesbit's powers of invention are at their best. 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
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visit the past or future. Pharaonic Egypt, Babylon (whose dotty queen comes back to London with them and tries to get her personal possessions out of the British Museum), Caesar's Britain: they visit them all in the search for the missing part of the amulet.
Nesbit's history is good. And there is even a look at a Utopian future, which turns out to be everything a good Fabian might have hoped for. Ultimately, the amulet's other half is found, and a story of considerable beauty is concluded in a most unexpected way. Show Less
User reviews
LibraryThing member pandoragreen
Featuring the "Five Children" from The Five Children and It. A childhood favorite, I have reread this book at least a half dozen times. Pretty much everything by E. Nesbit is worth a look or three.
LibraryThing member Bookish59
Read and enjoyed years ago. Loved Nesbit's books!
LibraryThing member antiquary
Of all Nesbit's book, I think the Five Children series (Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet) are among my favorites, second only to The Magic City.
LibraryThing member Marse
This time the children from "Five Children and It" and "The Phoenix and the Carpet" are traveling through time with the help of a magic amulet. As always, E. Nesbit is a wonderful storyteller, and the children's adventures are interesting and amusing. They travel back 8000 years, visit Babylon, see
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the destruction of Atlantis, meet Julius Caesar, as well as other adventures, all in order to get their heart's desire, which was the quick return of their parents from a trip away from home. A lovely book. Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1906
Physical description
7.9 inches
ISBN
0486822516 / 9780486822518
UPC
800759822515