Discworld · Book 41
The Shepherd's Crown
- Published
- 27 August 2015
- Pages
- 319
- ISBN-13
- 9781785411663
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Shepherd's Crown" (2015) continues Terry Pratchett's Discworld at 319 pages, the 41st novel in a series that mixes straight fantasy trappings with sharp satire of policing, religion, war and belief.
Its place in Discworld
The Shepherd's Crown is book 41 in the Discworld series. It follows Raising Steam. 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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