Discworld · Book 24
The Fifth Elephant
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 415
- ISBN-13
- 9780061347245
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 415 pages, "The Fifth Elephant" (1999) is Discworld's 24th entry -- one more instalment of Pratchett's comic series about the flat, elephant-and-turtle-borne world he used as a mirror for our own.
Its place in Discworld
The Fifth Elephant is book 24 in the Discworld series. It follows Carpe Jugulum. It is followed by The Truth. 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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