Xanth · Book 4
Centaur Aisle
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780345418524
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 4th Xanth novel, Centaur Aisle appeared in 1982, continuing Piers Anthony's saga of the Human Being lineage and their neighbors navigating magic talents, quests, and the barrier that separates Xanth from mundane Mundania. It runs 304 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Centaur Aisle is book 4 in the Xanth series. It follows Castle Roogna. It is followed by Ogre, Ogre. 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 9780345418524