Swell Foop

Swell Foop

Author	Piers Anthony
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
Dewey Decimal	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

1. 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