Paperback, 381 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1997 by Corgi Books.
THE BLURB:
The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night...
The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...
At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing.
So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)
"Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh" Independent
Pratchett's take on Phantom of the Opera? Damn it, Terry, I had just decided I DIDN'T like the Witches!
Here are two quotes.
Quote #1:
Seldom Bucket had always enjoyed opera. He didn’t understand it and never had, but he didn’t understand the ocean either and he enjoyed that, too.
Quote #2:
Don Giovanni, Hamlet and the sea were the three finest things God ever made.
One of these quotes is from Gustave Flaubert, overrated French novelist. And the other is one of the numerous hilarious and incisive lines from this typically terrific Terry Pratchett novel.
Here are two quotes.
Quote #1:
Seldom Bucket had always enjoyed opera. He didn’t understand it and never had, but he didn’t understand the ocean either and he enjoyed that, too.
Don Giovanni, Hamlet and the sea were the three finest things God ever made.
