Men at Arms: Men at Arms - Couverture rigide

Pratchett, Terry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061092185 ISBN 13 : 9780061092183

Editeur : Harper Voyager, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Pratchett Terry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It was a dwarf's dream. Captain Vimes of the Watch was retiring. That put Corporal Carrot in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from the Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It was a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf who was so homesick for the gold mines of Ramtop that he often locked himself in the dark room and hit himself on the head with an axe-handle, just for fun.

It was a young lord's nightmare. Edward, the 37th Lord d'Eath, newly graduated from the School for Assassins (the ideal institution for those whose rank is higher than their intelligence), had made an astonishing discovery. Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, and ruled by Disorganized Crime, had a sovereign! The new king just had to be convinces that he was, in fact, a king.

Corporal Carrot had a job.

Lord d'Eath had a Task.

And so began the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which good and evil, greed and honor, trolls and dwarves, dogs and bells and swamp dragons would clash, crash, toll, bark, shimmer, and simmer. The fate of a city, indeed a kingdom--nay, a very universe!--was to depend on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic, and three-legged poodle's bladder.

Don't look so surprised. This is Discworld, where anything can happen.

Which means that everything always does.

Revue de presse :

"Funny, wise and mock heroic...The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year" (Sunday Express)

"Pratchett's most intriguing yet" (The Times)

"This has everything to recommend it...one of his most inventive" (Daily Telegraph)

"The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences" (A.S. Byatt New York Times)

"Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd" (The Sunday Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Voyager
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0061092185
• ISBN 13: 9780061092183
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 341