Well-Tempered Clavicle
novel 2011 Xanth
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| Reader rating | 3.88 (962 ratings, collected 2026-08-25) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765331342 |
Synopsis
A skeletal musician meets three musical creatures and a lovesick princess, drawing him into an adventure where the realm faces a plague of terrible puns and a dangerous monster that only his musical talents can combat.
Where it sits
- Universe: Xanth
- Series: Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 34-49) ; position 2 of 16 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Piers Anthony
Notes
- From the series record (Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 34-49)): Closes the Xanth gap: books 34 through 49 (2010-2026), continuing directly from book 33 (Jumper Cable, 2009). All currently published Xanth novels are now catalogued. Two further titles the author has announced (Limbo, Fusia's Friends) have no confirmed publication date and are excluded for now.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Xanth, the expanded sequence (books 34-49): position 2 of 16: previous Knot Gneiss (2010) · next Luck of the Draw (2012)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Xanth
- https://www.orderofbooks.com/series/xanth/
- https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/piers-anthony/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-Tempered_Clavicle
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