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.
Key facts about Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum is a novel by Terry Pratchett. Readers have had it since 1 January 1998. It runs to 378 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Carpe Jugulum. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780061020391 to find the main one.
Carpe Jugulum is book 23 of 41 in the Discworld series. The series has 41 published books. However, the series starts with The Colour of Magic (1983). The Shepherd's Crown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2015.
Additionally, Terry Pratchett writes The Bromeliad Trilogy, The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and The Long Earth as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Long Cosmos is the latest published Terry Pratchett book on file, from 30 June 2016.
About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was an English author whose Discworld series became one of the most beloved and best-selling comic fantasy works in the language, running to forty-one novels published between 1983 and his death in 2015. See every Terry Pratchett book in order.
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