Discworld · Book 29
Night Watch
- Published
- 1 November 2002
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780753140505
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Night Watch" (2002) continues Terry Pratchett's Discworld at 400 pages, the 29th novel in a series that mixes straight fantasy trappings with sharp satire of policing, religion, war and belief.
Its place in Discworld
Night Watch is book 29 in the Discworld series. It follows The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. It is followed by The Wee Free Men. 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
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