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An edition of Equal Rites (1987)

La huitième fille

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Sentant venir sa mort prochaine, le mage Tambour Billette organise le legs de ses pouvoirs, de son bourdon, de son fonds de commerce. Nous sommes sur le Disque-monde. (Vous y êtes ? Nous y sommes.) La succession s'y opère de huitième fils en huitième fils. Logique. Ainsi procède le mage. Puis il meurt.

Or il apparaît que le huitième fils en cause est… une fille. Stupeur, désarroi, confusion : jamais on n'a vu pareille incongruité.

Trop tard ; la transmission s'est accomplie au profit de la petite Eskarina. Elle entame son apprentissage sous la houlette rétive de la sorcière Mémé Ciredutemps…

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L'Atalante
Language
French
Pages
252

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Subjects

Fantasy, Fiction, Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Discworld (Imaginary place), Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction, Wizards, Fantasy fiction, Discworld (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, humorous, English Fantasy fiction, Translations into Spanish, Spanish Fantasy fiction, Translations from English, Fiction, humorous, general, Literature and fiction, fantasy, Granny weatherwax (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, satire, Margaret A. Edwards Award, English literature

People

Eskarina Smith (Fictional character), Granny Weatherwax (Fictional character), Drum Billet (Fictional character), Archchancellor Cutangle

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Discworld

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Equal Rites
Equal Rites
2022, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: La huitième fille
La huitième fille
2014, L'Atalante
in French
Cover of: Ritos iguales
Ritos iguales
2001, Plaza & Janeès
in Spanish - 1st Spanish edition.
Cover of: Equal Rites
Equal Rites
2000, HarperPaperbacks
in English
Cover of: Equal Rites
Equal Rites
1988, Roc
in English
Cover of: Equal Rites
Equal Rites: A Discworld Book
1988, New American Library
in English - 1st Signet printing.

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Edition Notes

Series
Les annales du Disque-Monde
Translation Of
Equal Rites
Translated From
English

Contributors

Illustrator
Josh Kirby
Translator
Patrick Couton
Appendix
Jeanne-A Debats

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL61162891M
ISBN 13
9782841726929

Work Identifiers

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OL453670W
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Wikidata
Q853442

Work Description

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late...

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