1.6 Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett Bibliography)
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1.6 Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett Bibliography)
%A Terry Pratchett
%T Wyrd Sisters
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr)
%D 11/88 [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-575-04363-6
%I Corgi
%D 11/89 (p/b)
ISBN 0-552-13460-0 (p/b)
%I Corgi (two-cassette audio/b; abr.)
%D 1994
ISBN 0-552-14014-7
%I Roc (mmp/b)
%D (not yet known) [this edition now out of print]
ISBN 0-451-45012-4
%I Isis (eight-cassette audio/b)
%D 1996
ISBN 0-7531-0021-5
%I Victor Gollancz (h/cvr) [larger format; letterbox design d-j]
%D 11/96
ISBN 0-575-06411-0
h/cvr blurb:
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical
Discworld as the statutory three witches meddle in royal politics.
But Granny Weatherwax (of _Equal Rites_) and her fellow coven
members find it's all a lot more difficult than playwrights would
have you believe. . .
Everything you'd expect is here - hunchbacked kings, lost crowns
and disguised heirs. And they are joined by things you haven't
heard of yet, like a stage-struck thunderstorm and the first record-
ed instance of the in-flight refuelling of a broomstick. Through it
all the wyrd sisters ("This cauldron's got all _yuk_ in it!") battle
against frightful odds to put the rightful king on the throne.
At least, that's what they think. . .
_Wyrd Sisters_ is the sixth of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels,
which are now well-established as the funniest fantasy series ever -
and among the funniest novels of any kind currently being published.
p/b blurb:
Witches are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't
have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the
leaders they didn't have. But even *she* found that meddling in royal
politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have
you believe ...
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