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Genre/Form: | Fantasy fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Terry Pratchett |
ISBN: | 1856952541 9781856952545 1856952746 9781856952743 0575058005 9780575058002 0552142352 9780552142359 9780552153218 0552153214 9780552142359 0552142352 |
OCLC Number: | 1015586739 |
Description: | 351 pages ; 18 cm. |
Series Title: | Discworld; Pratchett, Terry. |
Responsibility: | Terry Pratchett. |
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"This spinner of crazy science-fiction tales is a very sophisticated jester" The Times "Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own" The Sunday Times "Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatalogically-minded and J.R.R Tolkein on speed... This total mess of - I suppose - a novel, is the joyous outcome" Daily Telegraph "Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre" Observer "Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive" Guardian Read more...

