Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
All the Discworld's a Stage - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

All the Discworld's a Stage

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs

Publisher: Oberon Books

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

Summary

Feet of ClaySomeone is killing Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork. No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how– he just gets weaker and weaker. But it’s not just Vetinari – across the city, people are being murdered, but there’s no trace of anythingalive having been at the crime scene. Commander Vimes, Head of the City Watch, is a man who hates ‘clues’. He and his team must questioneveryone – the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. In a city teeming with vampires, werewolves, dwarfs with attitude and golems,Vimes must solve the crimes and save the Patrician.The Rince CycleAs a punishment, failed wizard Rincewind is given the task of guiding and safeguarding the Disc’s first tourist, Twoflower (with his magicalluggage on legs). As they travel the city and beyond, they meet the world’s oldest hero, Cohen the Barbarian. With him, and with Bethan(a qualified sacrificial victim), they encounter druids, trolls, adventurers, a hairdresser and a power-crazed wizard. Oh, and Death. But notfatally. Did we mention that Rincewind also has to save the world from destruction by a huge red star that will collide with the Discworld atHogswatch? The Rince Cycle is mostly based on The Light Fantastic, with bits of The Colour of Magic and Sourcery added for good measure.Unseen Academicals‘Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Ankh-Morpork, where we lay our scene…’Football divides the city. Each area has its own team – and rivalry means supporters never mix. Until a Dimwell fan falls for a Dolly Sisters girl.And now an ancient bequest means the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic. Luckily they’re coached by themysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, four livesare entangled and changed forever. Because the thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.
Available since: 02/10/2015.

Other books that might interest you

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author - cover

    Six Characters in Search of an...

    Luigi Pirandello

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello.Pirandello, in the preface to the play, says that whenever a reader opens Dante’s Inferno, Francesca will drift down from the dark wind in her circle of Hell and tell the Pilgrim her story; and it will always be for the first time – just as the Mother in Pirandello’s play at one point makes an agonizing cry, always for the first time.Each character sees events and the other characters differently. Their readings of reality do not match up. No one character is more correct than the other. There are as many versions of the story as there are characters in the play. Each character is in fact many characters; each has a sense of who he or she is, but each also is what the others believe he or she is.The play suggests that we are more victims of forces we cannot control than captains of our own fate and demonstrates Pirandello's conception that in place of a continuous ego, self or "I" are states of mind, masks or personae; the temporary result of forces brought to bear on us at that moment. The self becomes an anthology of such roles or masks. Theatricalists thought life was more like theater than vice versa. As in theater, we put on and take off masks, try out various roles, and make up our lives as we go along. (Summary by Wikipedia)CAST:The Narrator: Elizabeth KlettThe Father: Peter YearsleyThe Mother: Ruth GoldingThe Step-Daughter: Miss AvariceThe Son: mbMadame Pace: Diana MajlingerThe Manager: Denny SayersThe Property Man: David LawrenceThe Prompter: om123The Door-Keeper: gobblegobbleThe Machinist: EzwaThe Leading Lady: Piper HaleThe Leading Man: bishL’Ingénue: Bridget TallonJuvenile Lead: LizMourantActors: Miriam Esther Goldman, Availle, Lucy Perry, Sweetlilbirdy, KalyndaAudio edited by Elizabeth Klett
    Show book
  • Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories for the End of the World - Six traditional tales retold by six ground-breaking poets - cover

    Ink Tales: Bedtime Stories for...

    Helen Mort, Joelle Taylor, Will...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Ink Tales reinvigorates fairy tales and myths from around the world, breaking barriers and challenging stereotypes throughout.Travel across oceans and discover the vengeful wrath of a River God in Kayo Chingonyi's West African tale. Soar too close to the sun with Inua Ellam's timely story of a young refugee girl. Fly to a mysterious castle inhabited by a cursed prince with Helen Mort's retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Uncover the truth of #Bluebeard with Joelle Taylor's modernised fairy tale. Look to the constellations with Will Harris' futuristic Greek tragedy, and never, ever answer to your name in Malika Booker's Trinidadian recreation of the Dwen.  Bedtime Stories for the End of the World is produced in partnership with the ground-breaking poetry podcast of the same name. The six featured poets draw on their own experience, adding a new dimension  to an existing tale. 'Bedtime Stories for the End of the World' is a spoken word and poetry podcast about the power of myth and the politics of storytelling. The podcast asks some of the UK's top poets to re-imagine their favourite myths, fairy tales and legends - the stories they want to keep and protect for the future. It also involves an annual live event, creating a tangible and accessible experience for existing and new audiences. Reimagined tales include Icarus, the legend of the Zambezi River God, East of the Sun West of the Moon, Bluebeard, Philoctetes and the Trinidadian folklore figure 'douen'.
    Show book
  • Measure for Measure - cover

    Measure for Measure

    William Shakespeare

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson lead a cast performance of Shakespeare's play that deals with mercy, justice, truth and their relationship to pride and humility.
    Show book
  • Cymbeline - cover

    Cymbeline

    William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius. Cymbeline now discovers that his only child left, his daughter Imogen, has secretly married her lover Posthumus Leonatus, an otherwise honourable man of Cymbeline's court. This edition of Cymbeline is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare's work. Read in English, unabridged.
    Show book
  • Dead Men's Praise - cover

    Dead Men's Praise

    Jacqueline Osherow

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A witty and formally versatile collection of poetry exploring life, faith, and history by the Witter Bynner Prize-winning poet. 
     
    With Dead Men’s Praise, Jacqueline Osherow gives us her fourth and most ambitious collection of poetry to date. Her hybrid inspiration ranges from Dante’s terza rima, to free verse, to biblical psalms, all delivered in a casually conversational voice. Combining the self-mocking inflections of Yiddish jokes with the pure lyric inspiration of biblical verse, these poems range in theme from Italian hill towns to contemporary art installations in Los Angeles to the vanished Jewish world of the Ukraine. Her effortless humor and sharp insights take us from imaginings of the future to recovery of the past, and her distinctive voice becomes a fusion of the sublime and the down-to-earth. 
     
    “Like Elizabeth Bishop, who wove her voice into a sestina so effortlessly you forget the form is there, Osherow makes villanelles, sonnets, and even Dante’s terza rima feel genuinely conversational.” —David Yaffe, The Village Voice
    Show book
  • Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol 4 - cover

    Charles Dickens 200th...

    Charles Dickens

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fourth volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry and speeches, previously unrecorded for LibriVox, was catalogued by Dickens' birthday on February 7th 2012. Further volumes were added during the anniversary year. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
    Show book