Xanth · Book 5

Ogre, Ogre

Published
1 January 1982
Pages
307
ISBN-13
9780727846839
Type
novel
Cover of Ogre, Ogre

About this book

Ogre, Ogre (1982) 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 307 pages.

Key facts about Ogre, Ogre

Ogre, Ogre is a novel by Piers Anthony. Readers have had it since 1982. It runs to 307 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Ogre, Ogre. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780727846839 to find the main one.

Ogre, Ogre is book 5 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

Ogre, Ogre is book 5 in the Xanth series. It follows Centaur Aisle. It is followed by Night Mare. 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…

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