Discworld · Book 23
Carpe Jugulum
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 378
- ISBN-13
- 9780061020391
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Carpe Jugulum" (1998) continues Terry Pratchett's Discworld at 378 pages, the 23rd novel in a series that mixes straight fantasy trappings with sharp satire of policing, religion, war and belief.
Its place in Discworld
Carpe Jugulum is book 23 in the Discworld series. It follows The Last Continent. It is followed by The Fifth Elephant. See the full Discworld reading order.
Discworld is Terry Pratchett's forty-one-novel comic masterpiece, set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. What begins in The Colour of Magic (1983) as straight fantasy parody — an inept wizard escorting the Disc's first tourist — evolves into something far richer: a mirror held up to our own world, where Pratchett uses dragons, golems and the anthropomorphic personification of Death (WHO SPEAKS LIKE THIS and is fond of cats) to write about policing…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061496387
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061020391