Maskerade: Discworld: The Witches Collection - Hardcover

Pratchett, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575058080 ISBN 13: 9780575058088

Publisher: Gollancz, 1995

Synopsis

Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an "innocent" night at the opera. Naturally there's going to be trouble, but at the same time there'll be a good evening's entertainment with murders that you can really hum to.

About this title

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: Gollancz
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0575058080
• ISBN 13: 9780575058088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288