In a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...

As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...

There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared... a source of magic... a Sourcerer.

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he's never been born.

Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy) The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise "What I did on My Holidays." Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word "wizard"... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying... ...and a very special butterfly.

This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation. It's hot. It's dry... very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it'll die in a few days, except... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong? Yes... all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still... no worries, eh?

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old-fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go going. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic, so they're going to try everything else. The Big Match draws in an urchin with a gift for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might turn out to be the greatest fashion model ever, and the mysterious Mr Nutt. (No one knows much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt). As the match approaches, four lives are changed forever. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

In the squalid, crime infested city of Ankh-Morpork - bifurcated seaport capital and oldest city of Discworld - one lives either by the sword or in the shadows... Includes The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery and Eric.

Una delle serie più esilaranti della SAGA DI MONDO DISCO 4 romanzi in 1 volume: Il colore della magia La luce fantastica Stregoneria Eric Il Mondo Disco è un mondo piatto che vaga nello spazio, sorretto da quattro elefanti che poggiano sul guscio di una tartaruga gigante. In questo meraviglioso e bizzarro mondo vive il campione universale dell'incapacità magica, il mago Scuotivento, che si trova ad affrontare le più strambe, scatenate ed esplosive avventure. Una di queste è il viaggio insieme all'ingenuo Duefiori, da cui tutto ha inizio. O la missione per salvare il Mondo Disco dalla collisione all'apparenza inevitabile con un'antipatica stella rossa. O ancora lo scontro con uno stregone dai poteri così grandi che potrebbe dominare l'intero mondo. Ma l'occasione più sorprendente viene afferta a Scuotivento da Eric. giovanissimo demonologo di Ankh-Morpork, la città più grande di Mondo Disco, che ha trovato il modo di evocare un demone che esaudirà ben tre suoi desideri. Peccato che, invece del demone atteso, nel cerchio appaia Scuotivento, il mago più inetto e incapace di tutti gli universi, alla disperata ricerca di una via d'uscita dalle Dimensioni Occulte di cui era rimasto prigioniero... UNA SERIE FANTASY GENIALE: ESAGERATA, SATIRICA E SPIETATA I mondi alternativi di Terry Pratchett sono lo specchio distorto del nostro mondo... Incredibilmente divertente, impossibile non leggerlo. The Times