- Fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Journalists, Newspaper publishing
The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record.An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would it be?) tabloid that conveniently interchanges what's real for what sells.But de Worde's got an inside line on the hot story concerning Ankh-Morpork's leading patrician Lord Vetinari. The facts say Vetinari is guilty. But as William de Worde learns, facts don't always tell the whole story. There's that pesky little thing called the truth ...
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Classical in form, comic, cool and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Penguin Books, Limited, ĖKSMO
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, German, Polish
- ISBN
- 9783442545186
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“The rumor spread through the city like wildfire (which had quite often spread through Ankh-Morpork since its citizens had learned the words fire insurance"")."”
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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