The Story of the Amulet

by E. Nesbit, H. R. Millar (Illustrator)

Overview

THE STORY OF THE AMULET exploits of Viking raiders in Ireland and elsewhere about one of the best and most amusing gift-books of the year roo. Another tale of Ireland of the brave days be given to either boy or girl is E. Nesbit's "The Story of the Anulet." rendering of the story of the Amulet. In it she tells how by then Cuchulainn under the title of The Boy Hero of Erin aid of a magic amulet four children are able to transport. To most boys he will be a new hero, themselves, not only to great distances, but back into past but they will find him no less rave than any Greek or times. They visit by this means ancient Babylon, Trojan. Among other volumes, not reprints, suitable for Pharaoh, Julius Cæsar, and other famous places and gift-books I may mention "The Last of people of olden days." These adventures are told with the Peshwas, a story of Indian fighting; great spirit and real humor.

It is a book full of healthy fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823157582
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/03/2022
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.22(d)
Age Range:	10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. Nesbit's biographer, Julia Briggs, names her "the first modern writer for children", who "helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels". Briggs also credits Nesbit with inventing the children's adventure story. Noël Coward was an admirer. In a letter to an early biographer, Noel Streatfeild wrote, "She had an economy of phrase and an unparalleled talent for evoking hot summer days in the English countryside."