Hogfather
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 383
- ISBN-13
- 9780552145749
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Hogfather
Terry Pratchett wrote Hogfather, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 January 1996. The book has 383 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780552145749 to find the main one.
Hogfather is book 20 of 41 in the Discworld series. The series has 41 published books. However, the series starts with The Colour of Magic (1983). The Shepherd's Crown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2015.
Additionally, Terry Pratchett writes The Bromeliad Trilogy, The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and The Long Earth as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Long Cosmos is the latest published Terry Pratchett book on file, from 30 June 2016.
About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was an English author whose Discworld series became one of the most beloved and best-selling comic fantasy works in the language, running to forty-one novels published between 1983 and his death in 2015. See every Terry Pratchett book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780552145749