Discworld · Book 4
Mort
- Published
- 12 November 1987
- Pages
- 297
- ISBN-13
- 9780061020681
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Mort" (1987, 297 pages) is the recommended starting point for the Death strand -- Terry Pratchett's anthropomorphic personification of Death (WHO SPEAKS LIKE THIS) takes on an apprentice, in a wry, humane, philosophical entry that's the fourth Discworld novel.
Its place in Discworld
Mort is book 4 in the Discworld series. It follows Equal Rites. It is followed by Sourcery. 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 9781446497852
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061020681