Foto 1 di 3
Galleria
Foto 1 di 3
Ne hai uno da vendere?
Discworld Ser.: Thud! by Terry Pratchett (2005, Hardcover)
US $22,00
CircaEUR 18,89
o Proposta d'acquisto
Condizione:
Come Nuovo
Libro che sembra nuovo anche se è già stato letto. La copertina non presenta segni di usura visibili ed è inclusa la sovraccoperta(se applicabile) per le copertine rigide. Nessuna pagina mancante o danneggiata, piegata o strappata, nessuna sottolineatura/evidenziazione di testo né scritte ai margini. Potrebbe presentare minimi segni identificativi sulla copertina interna. Mostra piccolissimi segni di usura. Per maggiori dettagli e la descrizione di eventuali imperfezioni, consulta l'inserzione del venditore.
- Compralo SubitoDiscworld Ser.: Thud! by Terry Pratchett (2005, Hardcover)
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Spedizione:
US $5,22 (circa EUR 4,48) USPS Media MailTM.
Oggetto che si trova a: Bayville, New Jersey, Stati Uniti
Consegna:
Consegna prevista tra il mer 10 set e il mer 17 set a 94104
Restituzioni:
Restituzioni non accettate.
Pagamenti:
Fai shopping in tutta sicurezza
Il venditore si assume la piena responsabilità della messa in vendita dell'oggetto.
Numero oggetto eBay:326589681569
Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Intended Audience
- Trade
- Vintage
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Features
- Ex-Library
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780060815226
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060815221
ISBN-13
9780060815226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45596442
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thud!
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, General, Romance / Historical / Ancient World, Science Fiction / General, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Discworld Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-046271
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
As always, Pratchett's latest Discworld yarn is funny, fast-paced, the kind of satire that explores serious issues while making readers love it., "Pratchett's imagination and satirical wit are on full display." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Imgenious, brilliant and hilarious." -- Washington Post "A delight from beginning to end." -- Fantasy & Science Fiction "One of the darker Discworld tales, Thud! does not disappoint." -- Sunday Express (London) "Pratchett, ever inventive, offers up his usual fun and games with typography and footnotes, a full complement of parody, word-play and swift allusion. . . . But Thud! moves from a comedy of multi-culti Ankh-Morpork manners into a pungent exploration of prejudice and dread, hypocrisy and rage. For all its magic carriage rides, technomancy and gloriously absurd transfigurations, on Discworld, the death of innocents (and innocence) is never cause for laughter." -- New York Newsday "As always, Pratchett's latest Discworld yarn is funny, fast-paced, the kind of satire that explores serious issues while making readers love it." -- Booklist "Funny, poignant, complicated and character-driven." -- Locus "The usual quick-moving, amusing and entertaining Pratchett tale. Pratchett has never shied away from using his settings and characters to offer commentary on the world, and [THUD!] is no different . . . . [Pratchett]'s his usual brilliant self here -- sarcastic, ironic, and just laugh-out-loud funny." -- Associated Press, "Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Imgenious, brilliant and hilarious." -- Washington Post "A delight from beginning to end." -- Fantasy & Science Fiction "One of the darker Discworld tales, Thud! does not disappoint." -- Sunday Express (London) "Pratchett, ever inventive, offers up his usual fun and games with typography and footnotes, a full complement of parody, word-play and swift allusion. . . . But Thud! moves from a comedy of multi-culti Ankh-Morpork manners into a pungent exploration of prejudice and dread, hypocrisy and rage. For all its magic carriage rides, technomancy and gloriously absurd transfigurations, on Discworld, the death of innocents (and innocence) is never cause for laughter." -- New York Newsday "As always, Pratchett's latest Discworld yarn is funny, fast-paced, the kind of satire that explores serious issues while making readers love it." -- Booklist "Funny, poignant, complicated and character-driven." -- Locus "The usual quick-moving, amusing and entertaining Pratchett tale. Pratchett has never shied away from using his settings and characters to offer commentary on the world, and [THUD!] is no different . . . . [Pratchett]'s his usual brilliant self here -- sarcastic, ironic, and just laugh-out-loud funny." -- Associated Press
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
"Start with Douglas Adams's comic science fiction ( A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ) and J.R.R. Tolkien's alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy's gritty realism and Jonathan Swift's unflinching satire and, if you're lucky, you'll get something like Terry Pratchett's Thud !" -- Wall Street Journal City Watch Commander Sam Vimes must solve the murder of a prominent dwarf or watch as Discworld is plunged into a bloody civil war in Terry Pratchett's delightful Discworld satire, a brilliant tale of prejudice, ancient feuds, and tender fatherhood. Long, long ago, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each side still views the other with simmering animosity that has been heightened of late because of one Grag Hamcrusher. The influential dwarf has been fomenting unrest among a section of Ankh-Morpork's citizenry--a volatile situation made far worse when the petite provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. 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. But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. With war-drums beating ever louder, Vimes must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin, and brave any darkness to find the solution. And the darkness is following him, pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear--and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself. Until six o'clock every day, when without fail, the Commander goes home to read Where's My Cow?, with accompanying farmyard noises, to his little boy. Because there are some things you must do. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thud! is the 7th book in the City Watch collection and the 34th Discworld book. The City Watch collection in order: Guards! Guards! Men at Arms Feet of Clay Jingo The Fifth Elephant Night Watch Thud! Snuff, It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win ... It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium ... It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself ... THUD It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discworld's incomparable supreme creator ... Terry Pratchett Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer--he might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace--and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirring up big trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events. Centuries earlier, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, a horde of trolls met a division of dwarfs in bloody combat. Though nobody's quite sure why they fought or who actually won, hundreds of years on each species still bears the cultural scars, and one views the other with simmering animosity and distrust. Lately, an influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork's more diminutive citizens with incendiary speeches. And it doesn't help matters when the pint-size provocateur is discovered beaten to death ... with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Vimes knows the well-being of his smoldering city depends on his ability to solve the Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes's secondmost-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to being home every evening at six sharp to read Where's My Cow? to Young Sam.) Whatever it takes to unstick this very sticky situation, Vimes will do it--even tolerate having a vampire in the Watch. But there's more than one corpse waiting for him in the eerie, summoning darkness of the vast, labyrinthine mine network the dwarfs have been excavating in secret beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. A deadly puzzle is pulling Sam Vimes deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear--and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself., "Start with Douglas Adams's comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien's alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy's gritty realism and Jonathan Swift's unflinching satire and, if you're lucky, you'll get something like Terry Pratchett's Thud!" --Wall Street Journal City Watch Commander Sam Vimes must solve the murder of a prominent dwarf or watch as Discworld is plunged into a bloody civil war in Terry Pratchett's delightful Discworld satire, a brilliant tale of prejudice, ancient feuds, and tender fatherhood. Long, long ago, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each side still views the other with simmering animosity that has been heightened of late because of one Grag Hamcrusher. The influential dwarf has been fomenting unrest among a section of Ankh-Morpork's citizenry--a volatile situation made far worse when the petite provocateur is discovered bashed to death . . . with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. 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. But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning darkness of a labyrinthine mine network being secretly excavated beneath Ankh-Morpork's streets. With war-drums beating ever louder, Vimes must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin, and brave any darkness to find the solution. And the darkness is following him, pulling him deep into the muck and mire of superstition, hatred, and fear--and perhaps all the way to Koom Valley itself. Until six o'clock every day, when without fail, the Commander goes home to read Where's My Cow?, with accompanying farmyard noises, to his little boy. Because there are some things you must do. The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thud! is the 7th book in the City Watch collection and the 34th Discworld book. The City Watch collection in order: Guards! Guards! Men at Arms Feet of Clay Jingo The Fifth Elephant Night Watch Thud! Snuff
LC Classification Number
PR6066.R34T49 2005
Descrizione dell'oggetto fatta dal venditore
Informazioni su questo venditore
hooks_books
100% di Feedback positivi•50 oggetti venduti
Registrato come venditore privatoPertanto non si applicano i diritti dei consumatori derivanti dalla normativa europea. La Garanzia cliente eBay è comunque applicabile alla maggior parte degli acquisti. Scopri di piùScopri di più
Feedback sul venditore (23)
- w***o (2572)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Mese scorsoAcquisto verificatoUnbelievable packaging!! Seller had the book wrapped up so tightly, even the USPS could not maul it! I am extremely grateful for that!! I love this book. As an adult I got to go to the island(s) she was on. Thank you for a flawless transaction. A real asset to eBay!! A++++++++
- m***o (793)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoVery happy with purchase. Exactly as described. Nicely packaged. Will save seller to favorites and shop with them again. A+ service and communications.Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass, Louis Carroll (N° 326482579932)
- 3***4 (2)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoOrder received via USPS Media Mail. Condition was as advertised and the seller was highly communicative. Very nice.Still Life With Woodpecker By Tom Robbins Trade Paper 1st Ed. - (N° 326497530672)
hooks_books
100% di Feedback positivi•50 oggetti venduti
Registrato come venditore privatoPertanto non si applicano i diritti dei consumatori derivanti dalla normativa europea. La Garanzia cliente eBay è comunque applicabile alla maggior parte degli acquisti. Scopri di piùScopri di più
Feedback sul venditore (23)
- w***o (2572)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Mese scorsoAcquisto verificatoUnbelievable packaging!! Seller had the book wrapped up so tightly, even the USPS could not maul it! I am extremely grateful for that!! I love this book. As an adult I got to go to the island(s) she was on. Thank you for a flawless transaction. A real asset to eBay!! A++++++++
- m***o (793)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoVery happy with purchase. Exactly as described. Nicely packaged. Will save seller to favorites and shop with them again. A+ service and communications.Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland: Through The Looking Glass, Louis Carroll (N° 326482579932)
- 3***4 (2)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoOrder received via USPS Media Mail. Condition was as advertised and the seller was highly communicative. Very nice.Still Life With Woodpecker By Tom Robbins Trade Paper 1st Ed. - (N° 326497530672)