He learns the Amulet had been under government protection. Bartimaeus, ordered to spy on Lovelace, travels to the magician Sholto Pinn's curio shop. Lovelace plans to use the Amulet to seize control of the government.ĭays after his twelfth birthday, Nathaniel summons the djinn Bartimaeus and charges him to steal the Amulet. Through a scrying glass, Nathaniel sees Lovelace receive a package containing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand. Embittered toward Underwood, Nathaniel plots revenge. In an alternate London where the British Empire dominates the world through control of magic, and commoners are governed by the ruling class of magicians, five-year-old Nathaniel begins an apprenticeship to magician Arthur Underwood, Minister of Internal Affairs.Īt the age of ten, Nathaniel is presented to a gathering of magicians including the formidable Simon Lovelace, who dismisses Nathaniel's talents and humiliates him. The book is named after a magical artifact created in the ancient Asian city of Samarkand, around which the story revolves. The book and series are about power struggles in a magical dystopia centred in London, England, and features a mix of current and ancient, secular and mythological themes. The first edition (paperback) was published in September 2003 by Doubleday in the United Kingdom. It is the first book in the Bartimaeus trilogy written by English author Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand is a children's novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic.
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