Swell Foop

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Swell Foop
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First edition
Author Piers Anthony
Cover artist Darrell K. Sweet
Carol Russo Design
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date
October 2001
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages292 (first edition, hardback)
ISBN 0-312-86906-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC 47136701
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3551.N73 S86 2001
Preceded by The Dastard  
Followed by Up In A Heaval  

Swell Foop is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series. [1]

Contents

The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first) [2] spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.

Plot summary

Cynthia Centaur and her companions must find the Six Rings of Xanth (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Void, and the Idea) in order to find the Swell Foop and use it to rescue the Demon E(A/R)th from the thrall of the Demoness Fornax.

Characters

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<i>Up in a Heaval</i> 2002 fantasy novel by Piers Anthony

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<i>Cube Route</i> 2003 novel by Piers Anthony

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<i>Currant Events</i> 2004 novel by Piers Anthony

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Air Apparent is the thirty-first book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony, which was first mentioned in the "Author's Note" in Currant Events. Piers Anthony stated that notions from his readers have already been set aside for use in this installment in the same "Author's Note."

This is a list of works by Piers Anthony.

References

  1. ↑ Janet Husband; Jonathan F. Husband (2009). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 26. ISBN   978-0-8389-0967-6.
  2. ↑ Tom Dalzell, ed. (2009). The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English. Taylor & Francis. p. 715. ISBN   9780415371827 . Retrieved 24 February 2014. one swell foopnoun Used as a humorous reversal of "one fell swoop" US, 1900


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