The Story of the Amulet
The Story of the Amulet is the third and finest book about Nesbit’s five children, published in 1906. Missing their parents and left in London, they meet the Psammead again in a pet shop and, on its advice, buy half of an ancient Egyptian amulet that can carry them through time. In search of the missing half, the children travel to ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Atlantis, and even into the future, meeting pharaohs and priests and glimpsing a better world to come. Praised for its real feeling for history and its gentle vision of a fairer society, it is one of the earliest and best children’s time-travel tales. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete story.
About the Author
E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English author and poet who transformed children’s literature with realistic, funny, and magical stories such as The Railway Children and Five Children and It.
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Listen to The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit free online. The full audiobook (8 hr 46 min, 14 chapters, read by Padraig O'hIceadha) streams free on this page.
The Story of the Amulet (1906) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01 - The Psammead | 34:01 | |
| 2 | 02 - The Half Amulet | 28:09 | |
| 3 | 03 - The Past | 25:28 | |
| 4 | 04 - Eight Thousand Years Ago | 33:21 | |
| 5 | 05 - The Fight in the Village | 31:12 | |
| 6 | 06 - The Way to Babylon | 37:13 | |
| 7 | 07 - 'The Deepest Dungeon Below the Castle Moat' | 43:50 | |
| 8 | 08 - The Queen in London | 48:17 | |
| 9 | 09 - Atlantis | 39:44 | |
| 10 | 10 - The Little Black Girl and Julius | 34:25 | |
| 11 | 11 - Before Pharaoh | 44:14 | |
| 12 | 12 - The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy | 42:45 | |
| 13 | 13 - The Shipwreck on the Tin Islands | 36:24 | |
| 14 | 14 - The Heart's Desire | 47:15 |
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