- Fantasy, Fiction, Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Discworld (Imaginary place)
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...
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Comic, classical in form, cool and ironic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett, Nurit Sharʻabi
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Corgi, HarperCollins Publishers, Isis
- Editions
- 55
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, cze
- ISBN
- 9788085609547
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“This is a story about magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where it comes from and why, although it doesn't pretend to answer all or any of these questions.”
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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