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Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe. But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he'd never been born!

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea..."The Colour of Magic" is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series, which has become one of the most popular and celebrated sequences in English literature.

Convertido en diplomático, el irrepetible Samuel Vimes parte en misión hacia la peligrosa tierra de los enanos…Dicen que la tierra es plana y se sustenta a lomos de cuatro elefantes que están encima del caparazón de una tortuga. Dicen que había un quinto elefante, y lo que ocurrió con él ha pasado a formar parte de la leyenda… En esta nueva entrega de la subserie de «La Guardia», el querido Samuel Vimes, a quien acaban de nombrar representante diplomático, debe viajar a Überwald, una tierra gobernada por hombres lobo, enanos y vampiros. Su misión no augura nada bueno: en cuanto Vimes llega, se las tiene que ver con los disturbios entre bandas de enanos rivales y resolver el robo del roscón de piedra, entre otras menudencias.

Imagine a flat world, sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. The Discworld is a place (and a time) parallel to our own - but also very different. That is the setting for Terry Pratchett''s phenomenally successful Discworld series, which now celebrates its 25th anniversary. The Discworld Graphic Novels presents the very first two volumes of this much-loved series in graphic novel form. First published fifteen years ago, these fully illustrated versions are now issued for the first time in hardback. Introduced here are the bizarre misadventures of Twoflower, the Discworld''s first ever tourist, and possibly - portentously - its last, and his guide Rincewind, the spectacularly inept wizard.Not to mention the Luggage, which has a mind of its own.

It''s an offer you can''t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork''s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It''s a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There''s something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he''s about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh. And ...

Unos vampiros muy peculiares están a punto de apoderarse de Lancre, pero las tres brujas de este reino no están dispuestas a cruzarse de brazos.Esta es la novela número 23 de la alocada y lúcida serie de Mundodisco. Una sucesion ininterrumpida de situaciones hilarantes y sarcasticas reflexiones en torno a una familia de vampiros que se ha propuesto modernizar el anquilosado reino de Lancre. Se han hecho inmunes a los ajos y las cruces y nadie se les puede resistir, salvo las tres incomparables brujas, Agnes, Tata Ogg y Magrat Ajostiernos. ¿Lograran vencer a los ambiciosos mordedores de cuellos?Terry Pratchett esta considerado uno de los mejores escritores satiricos en lengua inglesa, en la linea de Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens o Lewis Carroll.Una jocosa parodia de la literatura y el cine de vampiros que nos hace reflexionar sobre la religion catolica y los conflictos eticos del ser humano.

Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly, some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got there. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings that on Earth are creatures of the imagination, like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods, are real, alive and in some cases kicking on the Disc. In "The Folklore of Discworld", Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to give an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.

Acaba de nacer el Ankh-Morpork Times y la febre por la prensa se adueña de la caótica metrópolis del Mundodisco.La novela número 25 de la saga «Mundodisco» es una entretenida sátira sobre el mundo de

''A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.'' From, "The Fifth Elephant". ''Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.'' From, "Moving Pictures. The Discworld is filled with a vast and diverse population - from witches to vampires and from the fiendish to the foolish, it is a world in which magical books can devour the unsuspecting, and Death can escape to the country for some time off. "The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld" is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. ''Un matrimonio siempre esta hecho de dos personas que estan dispuestas a jurar que es solo el otro el que ronca''. De "The Fifth Elephant". ''En el interior de cada persona mayor hay una persona joven que se pregunta que le ha pasado''. De "Moving Pictures". Mundodisco esta poblado por una vasta y diversa suma de habitantes, desde brujas a vampiros y desde lo mas malvado hasta lo mas estupido: este es un mundo en el que los libros magicos pueden devorar al distraido, y donde la Muerte puede hacer alguna escapadita al campo por un tiempo. "The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld" es una recopilacion de los dichos mas sabios, ingeniosos y sustanciales de este extraordinario universo, analizados uno a uno por cada libro del canon.

Armada con tan solo una sartén y su sentido común, Tiffany Dolorido, una joven aspirante a bruja, es lo único que se interpone entre los monstruos del País de las Hadas y la cálida y verde tierra de la Caliza, su hogar. Obligada a entrar en los dominios feéricos para rescatar a su hermano secuestrado, Tiffany se une a los Nac Mac Feegle locales (también llamados pequeños hombres libres), un clan de hombrecillos azules de quince centímetros de altura que roban ovejas, blanden espadas y son tan feroces como divertidos. Juntos lucharán en un territorio espeluznante y siempre en movimiento, se enfrentarán a brutales hadas voladoras, seres tejedores de sueños y perros sombríos (unos canes negros con ojos de fuego y dientes como cuchillas), antes de llegar hasta la Reina de los Elfos, la soberana absoluta de un mundo en el que la realidad se mezcla con las pesadillas. En el momento decisivo, Tiffany tendrá que enfrentarse sola a su cruel poder...

When the Queen of Fairyland steals away Tiffany Aching's young brother, Tiffany has to do something. Helped by the Nac Mac Feegle - the thievin', fightin', stealin' pictsies known as the Wee Free Men

Mundodisco, el lugar fantástico e imaginario que sirve de escenario a la saga de novelas homónimas, está en guerra. Todo empieza con la disputa por unos peces y sigue por la posesión de una isla que emerge de repente en medio del mar. A partir de esta situacion surrealista, Pratchett incide con ironia en la inutilidad de las guerras, la xenofobia, el racismo y el sexismo. Esta hilarante obra satirica sobre el falso patriotismo y los conflictos armados actuales forma parte de una extensa saga que ha vendido millones de libros en todo el mundo. En el Reino Unido se situa inmediatamente despues de la afamada J K Rowling, autora de Harry Potter.

Koom Valley. That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.