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Ptolemy's Gate

Name: Ptolemy's Gate
Author: Jonathan Stroud

Ptolemy's Gate is a novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic. It is the third book in the Bartimaeus trilogy, written by British author Jonathan Stroud. It was released in the United Kingdom in September 2005, and in the United States in December of the same year.

“Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout."
"Whithout what?”

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“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

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“The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.”

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“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

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