Discworld · Book 33
Going Postal
- Published
- 1 October 2004
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9780063393318
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Going Postal" (2004, 416 pages) introduces reformed conman Moist von Lipwig, and is recommended as a late, polished entry point into Discworld on its own -- Pratchett's satire turns to the postal service here as the series' 33rd novel.
Its place in Discworld
Going Postal is book 33 in the Discworld series. It follows A Hat Full of Sky. It is followed by Thud!. 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 9780060740887
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780063393318