Discworld · Book 27
The Last Hero
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 174
- ISBN-13
- 9780575073777
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Last Hero" (2001, 174 pages) is the 27th book in the Discworld series, published as part of the 1983-2015 run that Pratchett filled with interweaving strands rather than one continuous hero.
Its place in Discworld
The Last Hero is book 27 in the Discworld series. It follows Thief of Time. It is followed by The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. 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 9780061040962
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575073777