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.
Key facts about Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1985. It runs to 292 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780708881484 to find the main one.
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn is book 8 of 49 in the Xanth series. The series has 48 published books. However, the series starts with A Spell for Chameleon (1977).
Additionally, Piers Anthony writes Battle Circle, Of Man and Manta and Jason Striker, plus 11 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, action thriller and fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Three Novel Nymphs is the latest published Piers Anthony book on file, from 2025.
About Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony is a prolific British-born American author best known for Xanth, his long-running comic fantasy series built around magical puns and wordplay, which has run to more than forty novels since 1977. See every Piers Anthony book in order.
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