The Story of the Amulet: Four Children and the Psammead in the Ancient World
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Half an amulet bought in a London shop opens the past to four children and a Psammead, and sends them to Babylon, Atlantis, Caesar's camp and a future London where nobody is poor. Nesbit was a founding Fabian and wrote her politics into the last chapter without apologising for it; In its future London children are named Wells, after "the great reformer". It is the funniest of her stories and the only one with a genuine ache in it. Fifty-six paintings by David Wilkie and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, from Roman studios to children at marbles and a snowbound Berlin, give these four time-travellers the everyday world they keep landing in.
Half an amulet bought in a London shop opens the past to four children and a Psammead, and sends them to Babylon, Atlantis, Caesar's camp and a future London where nobody is poor. Nesbit was a founding Fabian and wrote her politics into the last chapter without apologising for it; In its future L...
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E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer born in London, a founding member of the Fabian Society, who supported an unreliable husband and their household by writing. She effectively invented the modern children's adventure story. Her works include The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It, The Railway Children, and The Enchanted Castle.
E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer born in London, a founding member of the Fabian Society, who supported an unreliable husband and their household by writing. She effectively invented the modern children's adventure story. Her works include The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Childr...
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