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 · Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander (, Hardcover) at the best online Brand: Penguin Books. Lloyd Alexander, perhaps unnecessarily, given the loosely linked nature of the books in the series, wraps everything up a little too neatly in about 10 pages. Although The Xanadu Adventure isn't one of Alexander's best novels, lacking the emotional resonance of The Gawgon the Boy and the unpredictability of The Rope Trick, it's still a fine, intelligent adventure story told in Alexander's . Lloyd Alexander created a sort of female Indiana Jones in Vesper Holly, a cool, cultured adventure gal. Now in "The Xanadu Adventure," Alexander winds up the series with a final tense adventure, and a surprising -- and deeply satisfying -- finale. If only most series went out so gracefully. Vesper Holly loves archaeology and adventure.5/5(4).

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