Discworld · Book 20

Hogfather

by Terry Pratchett

Published
1 January 1996
Pages
383
ISBN-13
9780552145749
Type
novel

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About this book

Published 1996 at 383 pages, "Hogfather" is Discworld's 20th entry, continuing Pratchett's use of the Disc -- and its dragons, golems and the personification of Death -- to satirise policing, religion, journalism, banking and belief.

Its place in Discworld

Hogfather is book 20 in the Discworld series. It follows Feet of Clay. It is followed by Jingo. 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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