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The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld
Paperback
Series: Discworld
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780061370519
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Oct 7 2008
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For every Terry Pratchett fan, an absolute must-have, giftable 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 Pratchett's madcap universe--a place that looks, sounds, and smells suspiciously like our own.
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
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