title: The Amulet: An Adventure (Volume 1)
author:  Victoria Paulsen 
description: Victoria Paulsen is an award-winning short story author. The Amulet is her first novel, inspired long ago by a Latin class at the University of Colorado.
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  # The Great Amulet
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  * THE GREAT AMULET.
  
  
    * [PROLOGUE.](greta_split_2.html#1_1_1)
  
  
  * [II.](greta_split_3.html#1_1_2)
  
  
  * [BOOK I.—AFTER FIVE YEARS.](greta_split_3.html#1_2)
  
  
    * [CHAPTER I.](greta_split_4.html#1_2_1)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II.](greta_split_5.html#1_2_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III.](greta_split_6.html#1_2_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV.](greta_split_7.html#1_2_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V.](greta_split_8.html#1_2_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI.](greta_split_9.html#1_2_6)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VII.](greta_split_10.html#1_2_7)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VIII.](greta_split_11.html#1_2_8)
  
  
  * [BOOK II.-JUST IMPEDIMENT.](greta_split_11.html#1_3)
  
  
    * [CHAPTER IX.](greta_split_12.html#1_3_1)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER X.](greta_split_13.html#1_3_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XI.](greta_split_14.html#1_3_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XII.](greta_split_15.html#1_3_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XIII.](greta_split_16.html#1_3_5)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER XIV.](greta_spli