Discworld · Book 3
Equal Rites
- Published
- 15 January 1987
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN-13
- 9781804990148
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Equal Rites" (1987, 255 pages) is the third Discworld novel and functions as an early prototype for the Witches strand that Wyrd Sisters would properly kick off -- Pratchett's take on magic, gender and the Disc's wizarding establishment.
Its place in Discworld
Equal Rites is book 3 in the Discworld series. It follows The Light Fantastic. It is followed by Mort. 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 9780575061668
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781804990148