Xanth · Book 17
Harpy Thyme
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN-13
- 9780812534849
- Type
- novel
About this book
Harpy Thyme is book 17 of Xanth, published in 1994, sending its cast through another self-contained quest across the pun-riddled magical peninsula that Piers Anthony built out of Florida's geography. It runs 318 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Harpy Thyme is book 17 in the Xanth series. It follows Demons Don't Dream. It is followed by Geis of the Gargoyle. 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 9780812534849