Five Portraits
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 268
- ISBN-13
- 9781497662919
- Type
- novel
About this book
Five Portraits, published 2014, is part of the long Xanth run that grew increasingly reliant on pun-based humor and reader-submitted wordplay -- a hallmark of Piers Anthony's engagement with his fan base -- while still resolving its own quest by the final page. It runs 268 pages.
Key facts about Five Portraits
Five Portraits is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 2014. It runs to 268 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Five Portraits. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781497662919 to find the main one.
Five Portraits is book 39 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
Five Portraits is book 39 in the Xanth series. It follows Board Stiff. It is followed by Isis Orb. 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 9781497662919