Xanth · Book 8
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 292
- ISBN-13
- 9780708881484
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn arrived in 1985, positioned between Dragon on a Pedestal and Golem in the Gears in Piers Anthony's Xanth, where quests, prophecies, and the search for a spouse or a throne recur constantly across a truly enormous connected cast. It runs 292 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is book 8 in the Xanth series. It follows Dragon on a Pedestal. It is followed by Golem in the Gears. 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 9780708881484