The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld - By Terry Pratchett
Indroduction
THROUGH THE WARDROBE INTO DISCWORLD
1 THE COLOUR OF MAGIC
2 THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
3 EQUAL RITES
4 MORT
5 SOURCERY
6 WYRD SISTERS
7 PYRAMIDS
8 GUARDS! GUARDS!
9 ERIC
10 MOVING PICTURES
11 REAPER MAN
12 WITCHES ABROAD
13 SMALL GODS
14 LORDS AND LADIES
15 MEN AT ARMS
16 SOUL MUSIC
17 INTERESTING TIMES
18 MASKERADE
19 FEET OF CLAY
20 HOGFATHER
21 JINGO
22 THE LAST CONTINENT
23 CARPE JUGULUM
24 THE FIFTH ELEPHANT
26 THE TRUTH
26 THIEF OF TIME
27 THE LAST HERO
28 NIGHT WATCH
29 THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
30 THE WEE FREE MEN
31 MONSTROUS REGIMENT
32 A HAT FULL OF SKY
33 GOING POSTAL
34 THUD!
35 WINTERSMITH
36 MAKING MONEY
Index
BOOKS BY TERRY PRATCHETT
FOR YOUNGER READERS
THE BROMELIAD TRILOGY
(containing Truckers, Diggers and Wings)
TRUCKERS
DIGGERS
WINGS
THE CARPET PEOPLE
ONLY YOU CAN
SAVE MANKIND
JOHNNY AND THE DEAD
JOHNNY AND THE BOMB
THE JOHNNY MAXWELL TRILOGY
(containing Only You Can Save Mankind,
Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb)
JOHNNY AND THE DEAD
playscript (adapted by Stephen Briggs)
DISCWORLD FOR YOUNGER READERS
THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS
playscript (adapted by Stephen Briggs)
THE WEE FREE MEN
A HAT FULL OF SKY
WINTERSMITH
FOR ADULTS OF ALL AGES THE DISCWORLD® SERIES
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
EQUAL RITES
MORT
SOURCERY
WYRD SISTERS
PYRAMIDS
GUARDS! GUARDS!
ERIC
MOVING PICTURES
REAPER MAN
WITCHES ABROAD
SMALL GODS
LORDS AND LADIES
MEN AT ARMS
SOUL MUSIC
INTERESTING TIMES
MASKERADE
FEET OF CLAY
HOGFATHER
JINGO
THE LAST CONTINENT
CARPE JUGULUM
THE FIFTH ELEPHANT
THE TRUTH
THIEF OF TIME
NIGHT WATCH
MONSTROUS REGIMENT
GOING POSTAL
THUD!
MAKING MONEY
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC – GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC – GRAPHIC NOVEL
MORT: A DISCWORLD BIG COMIC
(illustrated by Graham Higgins)
GUARDS! GUARDS!: A DISCWORLD BIG COMIC
(adapted by Stephen Briggs, illustrated by Graham Higgins)
SOUL MUSIC: THE ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY
WYRD SISTERS: THE ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY MORT – THE PLAY
(adapted by Stephen Briggs)
WYRD SISTERS – THE PLAY
(adapted by Stephen Briggs)
GUARDS! GUARDS! – THE PLAY
(adapted by Stephen Briggs)
MEN AT ARMS – THE PLAY
(adapted by Stephen Briggs)
MASKERADE
(adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs)
CARPE JUGULUM
(adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs)
LORDS AND LADIES
(adapted for the stage by Irana Brown)
INTERESTING TIMES
(adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs)
THE FIFTH ELEPHANT
(adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs)
THE TRUTH
(adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs)
THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD
(with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)
THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD II: THE GLOBE
(with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen)
THE DISCWORLD COMPANION
(with Stephen Briggs)
THE STREETS OF ANKH-MORPORK
(with Stephen Briggs)
THE DISCWORLD MAPP
(with Stephen Briggs)
A TOURIST GUIDE TO LANCRE – A DISCWORLD MAPP
(with Stephen Briggs and Paul Kidby)
DEATH’S DOMAIN
(with Paul Kidby)
NANNY OGG’S COOKBOOK
(with Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan and Paul Kidby)
THE PRATCHETT PORTFOLIO
(with Paul Kidby)
THE LAST HERO
(with Paul Kidby)
THE CELEBRATED DISCWORLD ALMANAK
(with Bernard Pearson)
THE ART OF DISCWORLD
(with Paul Kidby)
WHERE’S MY COW?
THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY CUT-OUT BOOK
(with Bernard Pearson)
GOOD OMENS
(with Neil Gaiman)
STRATA
THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN
THE UNADULTERATED CAT
(cartoons by Gray Jolliffe)
also available in audio/CD published by Victor Gollancz
published by Samuel French published by Methuen Drama
published by Ebury Press published by Oxford University Press
THROUGH THE WARDROBE INTO DISCWORLD
IT WAS THE WIT OF TERRY PRATCHETT THAT FIRST ATTRACTED ME to the books, and which then led to my pushing past the fur coats and finding myself in his magical world - thankfully devoid of Turkish delight and talking beavers.
One of the big questions about Discworld for a newcomer is ‘Where do I start?’ This is a tricky one. For every diehard fan of Rincewind there’s an advocate for Small Gods. For everyone who loves the ‘Witch’ or ‘City Watch’ books, there is another who prefers the ‘one theme’ books, such as Soul Music and Moving Pictures. I, as it happens, kicked off with Mort.
Terry writes fantasy - but his books are grounded firmly in reality. They contain heroes (not many), cowards, villains, bigots, crooks, the strong-willed and the weak-willed. Sometimes they are human. A lot of the time they are not. The series extends across many genres and deals with real issues. But Terry uses his wit to sharpen his pen; the humour in the books can be dark, and it can be so corny you may groan out loud as you read him on the train.
In producing this book, I have not tried to extract every single gag and witty exchange from the series. There are too many, and to do that, I might just as well have tied a set of the novels up with string and added a tag: ‘The Complete Wit of Pratchett’.
What I have done is re-read every book in the canon, and pull out the extracts that appealed to me. Sometimes they’ll be a page long, sometimes they’ll be a single line of text. Sometimes a really good gag has been omitted because it needs the buildup that the novel can give but which would take too long to set up in a book of quotations. Here and there, I’ve had to change the odd word, or omit the occasional phrase, to help the