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{{short description|2001 novel by Piers Anthony}}
{{For|the video game in GNOME Games|SameGame}}
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name          = Swell Foop
| image         = Swell Foop cover.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author        = [[Piers Anthony]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| cover_artist  = [[Darrell K. Sweet]]<br />[[Carol Russo Design]]
| genre         = [[Fantasy fiction|Fantasy]]
| publisher     = [[Tor Books]]
| release_date  = October 2001
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 292  (first edition, hardback)
| isbn = 0-312-86906-1
| isbn_note = (first edition, hardback)
| dewey= 813/.54 21
| congress= PS3551.N73 S86 2001
| oclc= 47136701
| preceded_by   = [[The Dastard]]
| followed_by   = [[Up In A Heaval]]
}}
'''''Swell Foop''''' is a [[Fantasy fiction|fantasy]] novel by British-American writer [[Piers Anthony]], the twenty-fifth book of the [[Xanth]] series.<ref name="HusbandHusband2009">{{cite book|author1=Janet Husband|author2=Jonathan F. Husband|title=Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBUlCAwAtNwC&pg=PA26|year=2009|publisher=American Library Association|isbn=978-0-8389-0967-6|page=26}}</ref>
 
The title is taken from a [[spoonerism]] for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English|date=2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415371827|page=715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5F-YNZRv-VMC&q=%22one+swell+foop%22&pg=PA715|editor=Tom Dalzell|accessdate=24 February 2014|quote='''one swell foop''' ''noun'' Used as a humorous reversal of "one fell swoop" ''US, 1900''}}</ref>  spoken by the tongue-twisted [[Peter Sellers]] character in the 1964 movie ''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|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)<sup>th</sup> from the thrall of the Demoness Fornax.

==Characters ==

*Cynthia Centaur
*Che Centaur
*Sim
*Jaylin
*The Demons FO(R\N)<sup>ax</sup>, JU(P/I)<sup>ter</sup>, M(A/R)<sup>s</sup>, V(E\N)<sup>us</sup>, E(A/R)<sup>th</sup> and ME(R/C)<sup>ury</sup>
*Justin Tree
*Breanna

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Xanth}}

[[Category:American fantasy novels]]
[[Category:Xanth books| 25]]
[[Category:2001 American novels]]
[[Category:Tor Books books]]


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