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| Author | Edith Nesbit |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | H. R. Millar |
| Language | English |
| Series | Psammead Trilogy |
| Genre | Fantasy, Children's Novel |
| Publisher | T. Fisher Unwin |
Publication date | 1906 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Preceded by | The Phoenix and the Carpet |
| Text | The Story of the Amulet at Wikisource |
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by the 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."[1]
- ^ Vidal, Gore (3 December 1964). "The Writing of E. Nesbit". The New York Review of Books. 3 (2). Retrieved 27 October 2016.