- Postal service, Discworld (Imaginary place), Science Fiction & Fantasy, Ex-convicts in fiction
The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses.
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Comic, classical in form, cool and relentless.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Terry Pratchett
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Penguin Random House, Prószyński i Spółka
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- German, Polish, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780061161650
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“They lay in the dark, guarding.”
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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