Discworld · Book 19

Feet of Clay

by Terry Pratchett

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
379
ISBN-13
9780552153256
Type
novel

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Cover of Feet of Clay

About this book

"Feet of Clay" (1996) is the 19th Discworld novel, part of Terry Pratchett's forty-one-book comic series set on a flat world carried through space on the back of four elephants and a giant turtle -- 379 pages, with no single protagonist but interweaving strands across Ankh-Morpork and beyond.

Its place in Discworld

Feet of Clay is book 19 in the Discworld series. It follows Maskerade. It is followed by Hogfather. 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…

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