![]() In particular, they align with the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist sentiments of the protest left between the 2003 Iraq invasion and Occupy Wall Street protests, their demons and magicians part of a magical class war. Rider Haggard I discussed in the previous post. The Bartimaeus books are also, in their own way, as ideologically coded as the adventure stories of Howard and H. These books, a trilogy published from 2003 to 2005, followed by a 2010 prequel, provide rollicking fun, driven by the irreverent narration of their demon protagonist–who frequently punctuates the text with self-promoting footnotes. King Solomon’s genies periodically escape their bottles in fantasy literature, but never more irrepressibly than in Jonathan Stroud’s bestselling Bartimaeus series for young readers. ![]()
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