- Fiction, Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Discworld (Imaginary place), Fantasy
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch -- which is spark enough to ignite that glorious internationalpastime called "war."
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Classical in form, comic, cool and richly built.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Corgi, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, cze
- ISBN
- 9780753140444
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- Fiction
- Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character)
- Discworld (Imaginary place)
- Fantasy
- Discworld (imaginary place), fiction
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Carrot (fictitious character : pratchett), fiction
- Discworld (Lugar imaginario)
- Ficción
- Vimes, Samuel (Personaje literario)
- Fiction, humorous
- Fiction, humorous, general
“It was a moonless night, which was good for the purposes of Solid Jackson.”
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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