Discworld · Book 25

The Truth

by Terry Pratchett

Published
1 January 2000
Pages
392
ISBN-13
9780552147934
Type
novel

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About this book

"The Truth" (2000) is the 25th Discworld novel, part of Terry Pratchett's forty-one-book comic series set on a flat world carried through space on the back of four elephants and a giant turtle -- 392 pages, with no single protagonist but interweaving strands across Ankh-Morpork and beyond.

Its place in Discworld

The Truth is book 25 in the Discworld series. It follows The Fifth Elephant. It is followed by Thief of Time. 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…

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