The Psammead Trilogy (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Edith Nesbit
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—Magical Realism
- Time of Work: About 1902-1903, with excursions to antiquity and the future
- Setting: London and Kent, England, and various other locations on Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
- Subjects: Children, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Twentieth century, Future, England or English people, London, Talisman or magical object, Fairies
- Locales: London, England, Kent, England
The Plot
The Psammead Trilogy was written as three separate commissioned serials for The Strand Magazine. Although The Story of the Amulet was finished and published last, Edith Nesbit began work on it before The Phoenix and the Carpet. Five Children and It contains eleven adventures that begin when five children (in order by age), Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother called The Lamb, go to the Kentish countryside for a summer vacation. While exploring an abandoned gravel quarry, the children find a psammead (pronounced Sammy-add) or...
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