The Story of the Amulet, Edith Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet, Edith Nesbit
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The Story of the Amulet

Author: Edith Nesbit

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Abridged: 2 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 10/01/2007

Synopsis

The trilogy of Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet, all involve the same family and their encounters with the magical being the Psammead. The adventures of the five children proved one of the most popular of Nesbit’s creations. The Story of the Amulet centres around the purchase of an ancient Amulet which can grant them their heart’s desire – the return of their parents – but which first sets them on a journey through time to ancient Babylon, Egypt, and Atlantis. But it begins in an old shop next to the British Museum…

About Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit, the daughter of John Collis Nesbit, a schoolmaster, was born on August 19, 1858. Her father died when Edith was only six years old. Despite money problems, Edith's mother managed to educate her daughter in France.

At the age of nineteen, Edith met Hubert Bland, a young writer with radical political opinions. In 1879, Edith discovered she was pregnant; she married Hubert on April 22, 1880, and the baby was born two months later.

Edith and Hubert were both socialists, and on October 24, 1883, they decided to form a debating group with their Quaker friend Edward Pease, Havelock Ellis, and Frank Podmore. They decided to call themselves the Fabian Society and were later joined by other socialists. Edith and Hubert became joint editors of the society's journal, Today.

Edith was a regular lecturer and writer on socialism throughout the 1880s. However, she gave less time to these activities after she become a successful children's writer. Her most famous novels include The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Railway Children, and The Enchanted Castle. A collection of her political poetry, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, was published in 1908.

After the death of her husband in 1914, Edith married Thomas Tucker, an engineer. Edith continued to write children's books and had published forty-four novels before her death on May 4, 1924.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on January 16, 2013

London, 23rd November 1905 Dear Virginia, The Story of the Amulet is at last finished, and I delivered it to the publishers yesterday! I must admit that I am not entirely satisfied, and maybe I should not have spent quite so much time discussing it with my dear friends at the Fabian Society. At first......more

Goodreads review by Roger on August 08, 2017

Childhood Archaeology The Story of the Amulet is the third of Edith Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy, about four children in Edwardian England who find a sand-fairy (a cantankerous creature like a dilapidated monkey with bat ears and snail eyes) with the power to grant wishes. After the calamities that foll......more

Goodreads review by Judy on August 13, 2010

This was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I decided to re-read it as part of my research for the memoir I am writing. I have a tattered copy of the 1965 Puffin paperback edition, which came free with any purchase at a used bookstore. The pages are yellowed but they are all there as we......more

Goodreads review by Emily on January 01, 2015

I read some E. Nesbit as a child, and felt that she was an author I should like, but somehow never really warmed to her. The writing style was a bit too stilted, even for my tastes, which were decidedly more old fashioned than those of my peers. I appreciate her now much more, now that I've learned......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 03, 2012

In this third volume of the series (following Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet), Nesbit finally succumbs to the temptation to get socialist and preachy. There is a revolt of the workers in Ancient Egypt where the rabble-rouser addressed the rabble with 'Comrades!', a visit to a so......more

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