Xanth · Book 3
Castle Roogna
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 329
- ISBN-13
- 9780345302830
- Type
- novel
About this book
Castle Roogna sits between The Source of Magic and Centaur Aisle in the Xanth lineup, published in 1979 -- one of the many quests through Piers Anthony's magical, pun-obsessed peninsula, resolved within its own covers as the series always promises. It runs 329 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Castle Roogna is book 3 in the Xanth series. It follows The Source of Magic. It is followed by Centaur Aisle. See the full Xanth reading order.
Xanth is a magical peninsula shaped like Florida, separated from the mundane, non-magical world (Mundania) by a barrier only a few can cross. Every native-born Xanthian has a unique magic talent, discovered around adolescence — anything from summoning storms to turning objects invisible to producing terrible puns out of thin air — and a great deal of the series' plot turns on characters discovering, hiding, or weaponizing their talents. Xanth's landscape is riddled with elemental spirits, centaurs, ogres…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345302830