Swell Foop
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Author | Piers Anthony |
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Cover artist |
Darrell K. Sweet Carol Russo Design |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy novel |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | October 2001 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 292 pp (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 the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony.
Plot introduction
Explanation of the novel's title
The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first)[1] 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 in Swell Foop
- Cynthia Centaur
- Che Centaur
- Sim
- Jaylin
- The Demons FO(R\N)ax, JU(P/I)ter, M(A/R)s, V(E\N)us, E(A/R)th and ME(R/C)ury
- Justin Tree
- Breanna
References
- ↑ 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 foop noun Used as a humorous reversal of "one fell swoop" US, 1900
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