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.
Key facts about The Dastard
Piers Anthony wrote The Dastard, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2000. The book has 384 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780812574739 to find the main one.
The Dastard is book 24 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
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