Discworld · Book 31
Monstrous Regiment
- Published
- 30 September 2003
- Pages
- 411
- ISBN-13
- 9780063372146
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Monstrous Regiment" (2003, 411 pages) is another of Discworld's standalones that needs no prior background, tackling war and gender as the 31st novel in the series.
Its place in Discworld
Monstrous Regiment is book 31 in the Discworld series. It follows The Wee Free Men. It is followed by A Hat Full of Sky. 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 9780063372146
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060578152
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781472537201