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The Light Fantastic

Terry Pratchett

Part of the Discworld series

  • 256 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1986
  • 60 editions
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1 About this book

The Light Fantastic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second of the Discworld series. It was published on 2 June 1986, the first printing being of 1,034 copies. The title is taken from L'Allegro, a poem by John Milton, and refers to dancing lightly with extravagance, although in the novel it is explained as "the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic. It was a rather disappointing purple colour."

The events of the novel are a direct continuation of those in the preceding book, The Colour of Magic.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: fantasy and humor.

  • Fantasy
  • Humor
  • Satire
  • Discworld (Imaginary place)
  • Rincewind the wizard
  • Samuel Vimes

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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