The magicians form the ruling class of people. Here, people are mainly divided into two classes, the commoners and the magicians. A certain kind of oligarchy is shown to exist in the alternate history depicted. Occasionally, he has given references to numerous mythologies of the world such as Homer and Arabian Nights. Particularly, these changes are seen in contrasting ways between the modern and older aspects.Īuthor Stroud never directly stated the current time, anywhere in the novel series. All the books are based on the idea that magicians, demons, and magic have been living throughout the history and have been altering it radically too. The other important characters apart from Bartimaeus and Nathaniel include Kitty Jones, Ramuthra, Jessica Whitwell, and Simon Lovelace. Even though author Stroud has depicted London during an alternate history, a number of other cities, countries, people, and events are described from the real history, including Solomon, Prague, William Ewart Gladstone, the Roman Empire, the American Revolution, Benjamin Disraeli, etc. The series set in the time of the alternate history era in which London is shown to be at the peak of its domination, being a magical oligarchy. He summons Bartimaeus and is often shown controlling him. The stories described in the series follow the career of a young magician named Nathaniel.

In all the 4 books, author Stroud has depicted the main character as the 5 thousand year old eponymous djinni called Bartimaeus, who is a reluctant and boisterous spirit. Apart from the three books, a prequel book was also written by Stroud, which was published in the year 2010.

This series is comprised of the trilogy books, which were released between the years 20. It was developed by the well known British author named Jonathan Stroud. The Bartimaeus Sequence series is popular novel series based on the children’s book, fantasy, magic, and alternate history genres.

The bartimaeus series