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Sourcery - (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett (Paperback)

Sourcery - (Discworld) by  Terry Pratchett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>Sourcery, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series.<P>Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off the edge of the world. And this time, he s brought the Luggage. But that s not all Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son a wizard squared (that s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic a sourcerer.<P>Will the sourcerer lead the wizards to dominate all of Discworld? Or can Rincewind s tiny band stave off the Apocalypse?"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Sourcery</em>, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series.</p><p>Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off the edge of the world. And this time, he's brought the Luggage. But that's not all... Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic -- a sourcerer.</p><p>Will the sourcerer lead the wizards to dominate all of Discworld? Or can Rincewind's tiny band stave off the Apocalypse?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>When last seen the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now, magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.</p><p>But that's not all . . .</p><p>Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son--a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who, of course, was a source of magic--a sourcerer.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>- "Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent... incredibly funny... compulsively readable." --"The Times"<BR><BR> - "His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction." --"Mail on Sunday"<BR><BR> - "May well be considered his masterpiece... Humour such as his is an endangered species." --"The Times"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>TERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.

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