Xanth · Book 13
Isle of View
- Published
- 1 January 1990
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780380759477
- Type
- novel
About this book
Isle of View (1990) is one of the self-contained quest novels that make up Xanth, Piers Anthony's pun-titled comic fantasy series where magic talents, centaurs, and increasingly elaborate wordplay drive nearly every plot. It runs 352 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Isle of View is book 13 in the Xanth series. It follows Man from Mundania. It is followed by Question Quest. 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 9780380759477