Xanth · Book 5
Ogre, Ogre
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 307
- ISBN-13
- 9780727846839
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780727846839