Discworld · Book 14
Lords and Ladies
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 377
- ISBN-13
- 9781804990100
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published 1992 at 377 pages, "Lords and Ladies" is Discworld's 14th 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
Lords and Ladies is book 14 in the Discworld series. It follows Small Gods. It is followed by Men at Arms. 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 9781409004431
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781804990100