The Story of the Amulet
by E. Nesbit
- First published
- 1906
- Language
- English
- VocaScene level
- B1
- Genre
- fantasy
- Length
- About 69k words
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This English fantasy is listed at B1 in the VocaScene catalog. The level is guidance for choosing reading material, not a formal language assessment. Signed-in readers can select unfamiliar words, see meanings and save vocabulary for later practice.
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And the Psammead, touched by this friendly thought, granted the wish. The book about all this is called _Five Children and It_, and it ends up in a most tiresome way by saying—
The reason that nothing more could be said was that I had not then been able to find out exactly when and where the children met the Psammead again. Of course I knew they would meet it, because it was a beast of its word, and when it said a thing would happen, that thing happened without fail. How different from the people who tell us about what weather it is going to be on Thursday next, in London, the South Coast, and Channel!
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