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The Phoenix and the Carpet - Definition and Overview |
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The Phoenix and the Carpet is a novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb when they come across a magic carpet that possesses the power to grant wishes, and a mysterious egg that hatches into a talking phoenix. The trilogy concludes with The Story of the Amulet (1906).
The novel was adapted into a BBC TV series in 1976, and again in 1997.
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