This never-before-published collection of fourteen funny and inventive tales by acclaimed author Sir Terry Pratchett features a memorable cast of inept wizards, sensible heroes, and unusually adventuresome tortoises. Including more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations, the appealingly de
Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales
โ Scribed by Pratchett, Terry
- Publisher
- HMH Books;Clarion Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 8 MB
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Dragons at Crumbling Castle -- Hercules the tortoise -- The Great Speck -- Hunt the Snorry -- Tales of the Carpet People -- Dok the Caveman -- The Big Race -- Another Tale of the Carpet People -- The Great Egg-dancing Championship -- Edwo, the boring knight -- The 59A bus goes back in time -- The Abominable Snowman -- The Blackbury monster -- Father Christmas goes to work.;An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring "dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells" written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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