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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 04/01/2007
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ISBN: 9781407032115
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Length: 196 Minutes
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RRP: £6.00
Maskerade
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(Discworld Novel 18).
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#18 in the Series: Discworld Novels
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Terry Pratchett
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Tony Robinson (Read by)
'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...'
Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera. Where the music matters and where an opera house is being terrorised by a man in evening dress with a white mask, lurking in the shadows, occasionally killing people, and most worryingly, sending little notes, writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks. Opera can do that to a man. In such circumstances, life has obviously reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do...
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 04/01/2007
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ISBN: 9781407032115
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Length: 196 Minutes
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RRP: £6.00
Reviews
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"'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'"
Independent
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"'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences'"
A.S. Byatt, New York Times
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"'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
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"'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy...Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own'"
Sunday Times
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"'Entertaining and gloriously funny'"
Chicago Tribune
