- Discworld (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy, English Fantasy fiction
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's not all...Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard.
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Comic, cool, warm and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- HarperTorch, L'Atalante, Gollancz
- Editions
- 49
- Language
- German, Polish, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781407034553
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“There was a man and he had eight sons.”
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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