![]() ![]() Her only other boarder is a scholarly Egyptologist who has filled his bedsit with ancient artefacts. The children are living with an old Nurse (Mrs Green) who has set up a boarding house in central London. Their mother has gone to Madeira to recuperate from an illness, taking with her their younger brother, the Lamb. a story of considerable beauty." Plot summary Īt the beginning of this book, the journalist father of Robert, Anthea, Cyril, and Jane has gone overseas to cover the war in Manchuria. By saying certain powerful words, the amulet becomes a gate through which the children are able to visit the past or future. ![]() 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. 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. In it the children re-encounter the Psammead-the "it" in Five Children and It. ![]() ![]() 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). The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. ![]()
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