Well-Tempered Clavicle
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780765331342
- Type
- novel
About this book
Well-Tempered Clavicle sits between Knot Gneiss and Luck of the Draw in the Xanth lineup, published in 2011 -- one of the many quests through Piers Anthony's magical, pun-obsessed peninsula, resolved within its own covers as the series always promises. It runs 320 pages.
Key facts about Well-Tempered Clavicle
Piers Anthony wrote Well-Tempered Clavicle, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2011. The book has 320 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765331342 to find the main one.
Well-Tempered Clavicle is book 35 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
Well-Tempered Clavicle is book 35 in the Xanth series. It follows Knot Gneiss. It is followed by Luck of the Draw. 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 9780765331342