Maskerade: A Novel of Discworld - Hardcover

Pratchett, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061052515 ISBN 13: 9780061052514

Publisher: Harper Prism, 1997

Synopsis

Witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg seek to flush out the ghost of the Opera House of Ankh Morpork, who is terrorizing the company's spaghetti-eating lead singer, and they are assisted by diva and would-be witch Perdita.

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Review:

There are strange goings-on at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. A ghost in a white mask is murdering, well, quite a lot of people, and two witches (it really isn't wise to call them "meddling, interfering old baggages"), or perhaps three, take a hand in unravelling the mystery. Fans of the popular Discworld series will be happy to see some old friends again in Maskerade, the 18th novel in the series.

Review:

"Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh" (Independent)

"The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. who writes amazing sentences" (A.S. Byatt New York Times)

"Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable" (The Times)

"Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy...Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own" (Sunday Times)

"Entertaining and gloriously funny" (Chicago Tribune)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Prism
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0061052515
• ISBN 13: 9780061052514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278