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Monstrous Regiment

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Description for Monstrous Regiment Paperback. Women belong in the kitchen - everyone knows that. Not in jobs, pubs or indeed trousers, and certainly not on the front line. Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape takes more time. Series: Discworld Novels. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 202 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330.

'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original' The Times

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .

'Trousers. That's the secret...Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: idiots! Get yourself some trousers!'

Women belong in the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
New
Series
Discworld Novels
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552167673
SKU
9780552167673
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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99-3

About Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple ... Read more

Reviews for Monstrous Regiment
'Not since Evelyn Waugh's novel Officers and Gentlemen has conflict faced such thoroughly cutting questioning...A great piece of writing, akin to Jonathan Swift'
Daily Express
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 ... Read more

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