- American Fantasy fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fantasy, Fiction
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids.
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Comic, classical in form, cool and resolved.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 366
- Publisher
- Plaza & Janes Editories Sa, Corgi, Isis
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- Dutch, tur, German, cze
- ISBN
- 9780061020650
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“Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn't bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces.”
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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