Swell Foop

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

Swell Foop

First edition
Author	Piers Anthony
Cover artist	Darrell K. Sweet Carol Russo Design
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	October 2001
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	292 (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	0-312-86906-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	47136701
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3551.N73 S86 2001
Preceded by	The Dastard
Followed by	Up In A Heaval

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

• 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

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 foop noun Used as a humorous reversal of "one fell swoop" US, 1900

External links

• Swell Foop title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database