Download Mort PDF Format Full Free by Terry Pratchett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. Death is the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, a black-robed skeleton carrying a scythe who must collect a minimum number of souls in order to keep the momentum of dying, well . . . alive. He is also fond of cats and endlessly baffled by humanity. Soon Death is yearning to experience what humanity really has to offer . . . but to do that, he'll need to hire some help. It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse - and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job - until Mort falls in love with Death's daughter, Ysabell, and discovers that your boss can be a killer on your love life . . . ________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Mort is the first book in the Death series.
Soul Music
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Gollancz
Release Date : 2013-12-05
ISBN 10 : 1473200121
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (473 downloads)
Download Soul Music PDF Format Full Free by Terry Pratchett and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES. SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's called Music With Rocks In. It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but... It's alive. And it won't fade away.
Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction
Author : Bernice M. Murphy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-04
ISBN 10 : 9781474414869
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (414 downloads)
Download Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Bernice M. Murphy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.
Download Mort PDF Format Full Free by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy' Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. Death is the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, a black-robed skeleton carrying a scythe who must collect a minimum number of souls in order to keep the momentum of dying, well . . . alive. He is also fond of cats and endlessly baffled by humanity. Soon Death is yearning to experience what humanity really has to offer . . . but to do that, he'll need to hire some help. It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse - and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job - until Mort falls in love with Death's daughter, Ysabell, and discovers that your boss can be a killer on your love life . . . ________________ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Mort is the first book in the Death series.
Mort - Playtext
Author : Stephen Briggs
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
ISBN 10 : 9781446497852
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (497 downloads)
Download Mort - Playtext PDF Format Full Free by Stephen Briggs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. But when Mort is left in charge for an evening, he allows his heart to rule his head and soon the whole of causality and the future of the Discworld itself, are at risk. Along the way, Mort encounters not only Death's adopted daughter, Ysabell - who has been 16 for 35 years - and his mysterious manservant Albert - whose cooking can harden an artery at ten paces - but also an incompetent wizard with a talking doorknocker and a beautiful, but rather bad-tempered and dead, princess. He also, of course, meets Death. On Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Death really is a 7 foot skeleton in a black hooded robe and wielding a scythe. He is also fond of cats, enjoys a good curry, and rides around the skies on a magnificent white horse called Binky.
Discworld and the Disciplines
Author : Anne Hiebert Alton
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2014-04-18
ISBN 10 : 9780786474646
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (474 downloads)
Download Discworld and the Disciplines PDF Format Full Free by Anne Hiebert Alton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict; humor and cognitive debugging; visual semiotics; linguistic stylistics and readers' perspectives of word choice; and Derrida and the "monstrous Regiment of Women." The volume also includes an annotated bibliography of critical sources. The essays provide fresh perspectives on Pratchett's work, which has stealthily redefined both fantasy and humor for modern audiences.
The Science Of Discworld
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2013-04-11
ISBN 10 : 9781448176670
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (176 downloads)
Download The Science Of Discworld PDF Format Full Free by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the internet and beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on. Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. Raising Steam is his fortieth Discworld novel. His books have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. After falling out with his keyboard he now talks to his computer. Occasionally, these days, it answers back. www.terrypratchett.co.uk @terryandrob Professor Ian Stewart is the author of many popular science books. He is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Prize for furthering the public understanding of science, and in 2001 became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Dr Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist, and lives in Newent, Gloucestershire. Jack has a laboratory in his kitchen, helps couples get pregnant by referring them to colleagues, invents biologically realistic aliens for science fiction writers and, in his spare time, throws boomerangs. Jack, who has more letters to his name than can be repeated here, writes, lectures, talks and campaigns to promote public awareness of science, particularly biology. He is mostly retired.
The Unseen University Challenge
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-03-20
ISBN 10 : 9781473208346
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (28 downloads)
Download The Unseen University Challenge PDF Format Full Free by David Langford and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University Challenge is one of the world's top quiz shows, enjoyed by millions, both participants and observers. But Discworld fans may feel that not many questions cover the real questions in Life, for example, Who or what could be seen as the inspiration for the near-tragic accident from which nanny Ogg is saved only be a special willow-reinforced hat made for her by Mr Vernissage of Slice? And give a plausible origin for Mrs Rosie Palm, proprietor of the famous House of Negotiable Affection in the Shades. Each Faculty at the Unseen University has provided a set of questions, and answers are included for those who are not sure how the poisonous effects of quicksilver fumes are an occupational hazard of magic-users. The questions have been compiled by Mr David Langford, who knows quite as much - and arguably more - about the Discworld as its Creator, and Terry Pratchett has provided an Introduction.
The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide
Author : Frank Plowright
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105122156214
Pages : 828 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide PDF Format Full Free by Frank Plowright and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews and analyses of over 5000 titles from the 1930s to date. ... Every comic of note from the past fifty years is included in this comprehensive guide to American comics. From the underground to children's comics, autobiography to fantasy.
Download Sequels PDF Format Full Free by Janet Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
The Colour of Magic
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2012-07-09
ISBN 10 : 9780552166591
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (166 downloads)
Download The Colour of Magic PDF Format Full Free by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea...
Funny You Should Say That
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-11-30
ISBN 10 : 9780141913278
Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (913 downloads)
Download Funny You Should Say That PDF Format Full Free by Andrew Martin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fool and his words are soon parted' wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that 'A wit and his words are rarely collected'. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, quips and observations from Ancient Rome, the Bible and Chaucer right up to The Simpsons and Little Britain. Over 5,000 of the very funniest remarks to have appeared on paper since, well, paper was invented. The quotations are arranged thematically and cover all aspects of life: from the world we inhabit to the things we eat, smoke and drink; from the way we move around to what and how we learn - oh, and the pointlessness of football. There is a short biography of all of the authors in the book, a brief contextual note for each quotation and an index of keywords to help you find you chosen witticism quickly. But do not be over-hasty when you use this book: it is a browser's delight, and should be enjoyed at leisure.
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9781780337135
Pages : 413 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (337 downloads)
Download The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 PDF Format Full Free by Stephen Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest edition of the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of horror fiction - including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Paul McAuley, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith Lee. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 also contains the most comprehensive overview of horror around the world during the year, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.
Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007
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Release Date : 2008-02
ISBN 10 : 083524749X
Pages : 2996 pages
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An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett
Author : Andrew M. Butler
Publisher : Praeger
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015074059471
Pages : 484 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett PDF Format Full Free by Andrew M. Butler and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hugely revealing critical encyclopedia of the whole Pratchett oeuvre, including non-Discworld novels, works for children and miscellania.
Cassette Books
Author : Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher :
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : PURD:32754073493896
Pages : pages
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A Cosmic Cornucopia
Author : Josh Kirby
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105029025017
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download A Cosmic Cornucopia PDF Format Full Free by Josh Kirby and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Kirby's exuberant cover paintings for Jerry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series have spawned dozens of imitators, but no one has yet matched his irrepressible and chaotic humor. As this definitive collection of Kirby's art--including many formerly unpublished works--proves, his vision has many facets. They go from the wildest fantasies to the hardest sci-fi; some images evoke a macabre realm of horror, others portray chilling futuristic landscapes, but all are wondrous. An analysis of Kirby's career and techniques will increase your appreciation of each picture: the Discworld delights, bursting with detail and action; the ghoulish depictions of things that go bump in the night; and the representations of the science fiction worlds inspired by Ray Bradbury and Robert Silverberg. Plus: enjoy a comic compendium of interpretations from the pens of authors such as Tom Holt. A visual feast not to be missed, with an informative text by multiple Hugo Award-winner David Langford. 112 pages (all in color), 8 1/4 x 11 3/4.
