The Xanadu Adventure

Lloyd Alexander. Dutton Books, $16.99 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-525-47371-8

Vesper Holly returns in The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander, and sets out with her pals for the Troy of Homer's Iliad-only to discover they've been led into a trap set by Dr. Helvitius, who imprisons the group in a palace called Xanadu. .

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