- franchise:Discworld, series:Discworld, form:novel, genre:fantasy comedy
In the twenty-eighth Discworld novel the Discworld goes to war.It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy.
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Comic, classical in form, effortless and richly built.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- Plaza & Janés, Penguin Random House, DEBOLSILLO
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- English, German, Polish
- ISBN
- 9788376488820
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“Polly cut off her hair in front of the mirror, feeling slightly guilty about not feeling very guilty about doing so.”
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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