The Story of the Amulet (version 2)


Read by Padraig O'hIceadha

(4.2 stars; 17 reviews)

The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the "it" in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in The Phoenix and the Carpet. (Summary from Wikipedia) (8 hr 46 min)

Chapters

01 - The Psammead 34:01 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
02 - The Half Amulet 28:09 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
03 - The Past 25:28 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
04 - Eight Thousand Years Ago 33:21 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
05 - The Fight in the Village 31:12 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
06 - The Way to Babylon 37:13 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
07 - 'The Deepest Dungeon Below the Castle Moat' 43:50 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
08 - The Queen in London 48:17 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
09 - Atlantis 39:44 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
10 - The Little Black Girl and Julius 34:25 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
11 - Before Pharaoh 44:14 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
12 - The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy 42:45 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
13 - The Shipwreck on the Tin Islands 36:24 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
14 - The Heart's Desire 47:15 Read by Padraig O'hIceadha

Reviews

Not so happy of a story


(3 stars)

Reader did a good job. Just didn't care for story


(3 stars)

Disappointed in this story and reader.

My review


(5 stars)

It was imaginative, creative, and highly interesting. The reader's tactics were great, but I would say that at some times pronunciation of the English words was a bit un-Englishy. - Lizzie, age 8