Dragons at Crumbling Castle and other tales
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
| Main Author: | Pratchett, Terry (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Beech, Mark, 1971- (Illustrator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston ; New York :
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2015, [2014]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| Summary: |
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter. |
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| Physical Description: |
336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780544466593 (hardback) 0544466594 (hardback) |
| Author Notes: |
His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. His first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. He became a full-time author in 1987. He wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime including The Dark Side of the Sun, Strata, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Truckers, Diggers, Wings, Dodger, Raising Steam, Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales, and The Shephard's Crown. He was diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer's disease in 2007. He was knighted for services to literature in 2009 and received the World Fantasy award for life achievement in 2010. He died on March 12, 2015 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) |