A curious scheme is afoot in Blighty. Attempting to tackle spiralling levels of crime and anti-social behaviour, the government has a new solution: to dye offenders purple. For once, even journalist Eve Baxter is shocked - she's spent years gathering the world's weird and wacky news, but has ne
The Carpet People
โ Scribed by Briggs, Stephen;Books on Tape, Inc.;Pratchett, Terry
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Books on Tape
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Edition
- Unabridged (US) (illus)
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0804168296
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โฆ Synopsis
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . .
That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls--and of two brothers who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened.
It's a story that will come to a terrible end--if someone doesn't do something about it. If everyone doesn't do something about it . . .
First published in 1971, this hilarious and wise novel marked the debut of the phenomenal Sir Terry Pratchett. Years later, Sir Terry revised the work, and this special collectable edition includes the updated text, his original color and black-and-white illustrations, and an exclusive story--a forerunner to The Carpet People created by the seventeen-year-old nascent...
โฆ Subjects
Size -- Fiction
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