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The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld Paperback - 2008

by Terry Pratchett


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"Pratchett has created an alternate universe full of trolls, dwarfs, wizards, and other fantasy elements, and he uses that universe to reflect on our own culture with entertaining and gloriously funny results. It's an accomplishment nothing short of magical." -- Chicago Tribune

For every Terry Pratchett fan, an absolute must-have book--favorite quotations from his beloved Discworld canon

Gleaned from more than two decades' worth of Discworld tales, here is an essential compendium of insightful musings, witty commentary, and sagacious observations by New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett, compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs.

- In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...

- All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

Filled with wonderful bon mots, double entendres, not to mention breathtaking insights, The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld is a compendium of the wittiest, pithiest, and wisest quotations from Terry Pratchett's madcap universe--a place that looks, sounds, and smells suspiciously like our own.

From the rear cover

A flat planet traveling through space carried by four elephants balancing on the back of a giant turtle; a world populated by (mostly inept) wizards, dwarfs, despots, policemen, assassins, aged barbarians, vampires, thieves, witches, and civil servants; a place where technology, per se, is nonexistent but magic works . . . except when it doesn't.

Gleaned from more than two decades' worth of Discworld tales, here is an essential compendium of insightful musings, witty commentary, and sagacious observations by New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett, compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs.

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  • Title The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld
  • Author Terry Pratchett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-10-07
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780061370519 / 0061370517
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Pratchett, Terry
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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