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Mort

Terry Pratchett

Part of the Discworld series

  • 297 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1987
  • 61 editions
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1 About this book

Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French, mort means "death" or "dead"; the French-language edition is titled Mortimer.

In 2004, Pratchett stated that Mort was the first Discworld novel with which he was "pleased", stating that in previous books, the plot had existed to support the jokes, but that in Mort, the plot was integral.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: fantasy and satire.

  • Fantasy
  • Satire
  • Humor
  • Science fiction
  • Death
  • Discworld (Imaginary place)

2 About Terry Pratchett

1948–2015

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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