Discworld · Book 30
The Wee Free Men
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 317
- ISBN-13
- 9780857535450
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Wee Free Men" (2003, 317 pages) opens the Tiffany Aching strand, the young-adult sequence that distils Discworld's wisdom for younger readers and is considered superb at any age -- the 30th novel overall.
Its place in Discworld
The Wee Free Men is book 30 in the Discworld series. It follows Night Watch. It is followed by Monstrous Regiment. 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 9780857535450