- Death, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fantasy, Fiction
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
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Comic, classical in form, cool and warm.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- TALPRESS, spol. s r.o., Corgi Audio Books, Orion Publishing Co
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- Portuguese, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9783492280648
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“This is the bright candlelit room where the life-timers are stored-shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for every living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past.”
Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, was an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, *The Carpet People*, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (*The Colour of Magic*) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s, and as of December 2007 had sold more than 55 million books worldwide, with translations made into 36 languages. He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read no
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