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CENTAUR AISLE

BY PIERS ANTHONY

Synopsis:

A Xanth fantasy. Prince Dor must rescue King Trent from of all places.
Mundania! The only way he can do this is to travel to Centaur Isle and
find the magician calliber centaur, no easy task since centaurs abhorr
magic and would never admit to possessing it. Poor prince Dor could
have saved himself a lot of trouble if he could have looked at the title
of the book c e n t a u r a i s l e but then Prince Dor has a terrible
time with spelling at the best of times and certainly could be forgiven
for a i s l e and i s l e. Will Mundania as we all know and despise it
survive this magical group?

A Del Rey Book

Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright 1981 by Piers Anthony

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a
division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada
by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Canada.

Manufactured in the United States of America

The author thanks Jerome Brown for the notion of the "Spelling Bee" used
in the first chapter, and the many other fans whose letters of
encouragement have caused the Xanth trilogy to be expanded. May those
who feel Xanth is sexist have pleasure in this novel, wherein Mundania
is shown to be worse.

Dor was trying to write an essay, because the King had decreed that any
future monarchs of Xanth should be literate. It was an awful chore. He
knew how to read, but his imagination tended to go blank when challenged
to produce an essay, and he had never mastered conventional spelling.

"The Land of Xanth," he muttered with deep disgust.

"What?" the table asked.

"The title of my awful old essay," Dor explained dispiritedly. "My
tutor Cherie, on whom be a muted anonymous curse, assigned me a
one-hundred-word essay telling all about Xanth. I don't think it's
possible. There isn't that much to tell. After twenty-five words I'll
probably have to start repeating. How can I ever stretch it to a whole
hundred? I'm not even sure there are that many words in the language.))