5.8 '- Palace', said Pteppic automatically.

5.7 Ptraci says, 'I don't know whether you've ever seen a book.

5.6 As the song continues, the 'left hand' is put in, then the 'right foot,' then the 'left foot,' then 'your whole head.'.

The novel also follows the pattern of most 'popular' romantic novels boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl back again - except this novel has a twist on the theme at the end. In this 'polder', history repeats itself through Dios, and critic Stefan Ekman argues that a central theme of the novel is the struggle of breaking free from the 'polder', of leaving one's background behind. The novel portrays a 'time polder', a bubble which comprises a particular slice of history and a particular bit of geography. These earnest titles were parodied in the 1981 Book of cartoons by Simon Bond 101 uses for a Dead Cat.

9 of The Light Fantastic).īook II is The Book of the Dead, is a more direct reference to Egyptian Book of the Dead.īook III is The Book of the New Son which puns on the title of the Gene Wolfe SF novel The Book of the New Sun.īook IV is The Book of 101 Things A Boy Can Do, which is a reference to the 1933 book 101 Things For a Boy To Make by AC Horth and other subsequent educational books and pamphlets for children along similar lines.

The novel is split into four 'Books' and is really a collection of linked novellas not a single novel with chapters or sections like Pratchett's later works Going Postal and Making Money or one long chapterless book like most of Pratchett's other works.īook I is The Book of Going Forth, which is a reference to the loose collection of Egyptian texts and spells for aiding passage into the afterlife, generally known as the Book of the Dead and originally know as the 'Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light'. It was first published in 1989 by Victor Gollancz and won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in that year. Pyramids is the seventh novel in the Discworld series. Pyramids Cover Illustration by Josh Kirby

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett