The Story of the Amulet

by Edith Nesbit

 

The
Story of the Amulet

BY
E. NESBIT
AUTHOR OF "THE TREASURE SEEKERS,"
"THE WOULD-BE-GOODS," ETC.

 

WITH 48 ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. R. MILLAR

 

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY
31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET

THE OTHERS STOOD LOOKING AFTER HER.

(See page 140.)

TO
DR. WALLIS BUDGE
OF
THE BRITISH MUSEUM
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
AS A SMALL TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR HIS
UNFAILING KINDNESS AND HELP IN
THE MAKING OF IT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1. The Psammead
2. The Half Amulet
3. The Past
4. Eight Thousand Years Ago
5. The Fight in the Village
6. The Way to Babylon
7. 'The Deepest Dungeon Below the Castle Moat'
8. The Queen in London
9. Atlantis
10. The Little Black Girl and Julius Caesar
11. Before Pharaoh
12. The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy
13. The Shipwreck on the Tin Islands
14. The Heart's Desire