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Carpe Jugulum: A Discworld Novel
by Pratchett, Terry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385409923
- ISBN 13
- 9780385409926
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About This Item
London: Doubleday, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Some creasing to dustjacket at top, and slight bump to corners of boards at bottom. UK First impression. Tight unmarked pages but slightly aged, dj is unclipped. From the dj blurb: "Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought that he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side. There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying 'I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?' They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe. Carpe Jugulum is another throat-biting instalment in the unstoppable and addictive cycle of Discworld. It is Terry Pratchett's twenty-third novel in the Discworld chronicle, but the first to star vampires.
Synopsis
It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England's best-known and best-loved modern satirist, that event has been long overdue.Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent Discworld novels satirize and celebrate every aspect of life, modern and ancient, sacred and profane. Consistent number-one bestsellers in England, they have garnered him a secure position in the pantheon of humor along with Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Matt Groening, and Jonathan Swift.Even so distinguished an author as A. S. Byatt has sung his praises, calling Pratchett's intricate and delightful fictional Discworld "more complicated and satisfying than Oz."His latest satiric triumph, Carpe Jugulum, involves an exclusive royal snafu that leads to comic mayhem. In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving. Ever.Only an uneasy alliance between a nervous young priest and the argumentative local witches can save the country from being taken over by people with a cultivated bloodlust and bad taste in silk waistcoats. For them, there's only one way to fight.Go for the throat, or as the vampyres themselves say...Carpe Jugulum
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- Interesting Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20
- Title
- Carpe Jugulum
- Author
- Pratchett, Terry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385409923
- ISBN 13
- 9780385409926
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- weatherwax fantasy ogg pratchett discword fiction vampires witches
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