Discworld · Book 38
I Shall Wear Midnight
- Published
- 2 September 2010
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9780061433054
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published 2010 at 416 pages, "I Shall Wear Midnight" is Discworld's 38th 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
I Shall Wear Midnight is book 38 in the Discworld series. It follows Unseen Academicals. It is followed by Snuff. 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
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