Xanth · Book 24
The Dastard
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780812574739
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Dastard arrived in 2000, positioned between Xone of Contention and Swell Foop in Piers Anthony's Xanth, where quests, prophecies, and the search for a spouse or a throne recur constantly across a truly enormous connected cast. It runs 384 pages.
Its place in Xanth
The Dastard is book 24 in the Xanth series. It follows Xone of Contention. It is followed by Swell Foop. 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 9780812574739