<P> The eponymously named ninth chapter, which takes place in Atlantis, though primarily inspired by Plato's dialogue Critias, also borrows such details from C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne's novel The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis (1899), such as the presence of mammoths, dinosaurs, and a volcanic mountain on the island . </P> <P> The final chapter in which the lonely Learned Gentleman and the quixotic ancient Egyptian Priest fuse into a single being; with the ritual being overseen by Anthea is one of the most stirring and unusual moments in the book . It almost appears to represent a marriage, not just of intellect and ancient knowledge, but of love . </P> <P> Several elements in The Story of the Amulet were borrowed by C.S. Lewis for his Narnia series, particularly The Horse and His Boy (1954) and The Magician's Nephew (1955). The Calormene god Tash closely resembles the deity Nisroch, whose name may also have influenced the title of the Calormene king, the Tisroc . Lewis's Tisroc, like Nesbit's King of Babylon, must have his name followed by "may he live forever", and the appearance of Jadis, Queen of Charn, in London in The Magician's Nephew, and the havoc she causes there, closely parallel the Queen of Babylon's eventful journey to London . </P> <P> In the third canto of his poem "Villon" (written 1925, published 1930), British modernist poet Basil Bunting stated he took the image of two drops of quicksilver (Mercury) merging from Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet and described her work as the "pleasantest reading of my childhood". </P>

The story of the amulet by e. nesbit