The Art of Discworld

Hardcover, 128 pages

English language

Published Nov. 2, 2004 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-075827-1
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The Discworld floats through space on the backs of four elepants standing on a giant turtle (once there were five elephants, but that's another story). It's a world bursting with magic, a land of contrasts and extremes, from the bustling metropolis of Ankh-Morpork, the oldest city on the Disc (now ruled with an iron hand in a velvet glove by the Patrician, Lord Vetinari), to the ancient empire of Klatch, where there are fifteen words for assassination. There's the mysterious continent XXXX, or Foureks, about which nothing anyone has ever heard is really an exaggeration, the tiny kingdom of Lancre and the dark country of Uberwald, where things do go bump in the night.

And then there are the inhabitants: the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick (now a Queen, of course). There are wizards galore, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully, the Librarian, Rincewind, the Bursar ... there are the History …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Kidby, Paul
  • Fantasy - General
  • Commercial - Illustration - Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Themes, motives
  • Art & Art Instruction
  • Illustrations
  • Art
  • Fantasy
  • General
  • Fantasy fiction, English
  • Fiction / Fantasy / General
  • Pratchett, Terry.
  • Discworld series