title: The Truth: A Novel of Discworld
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: "Other writers are mining the rich seam of comic fantasy that Pratchett first unearthed, but what keeps Pratchett on top is - quite literally - the way he tells them." - "The Times"<BR><BR>""The Truth" is an unmitigated delight and very, very funny...The pace is compelling but he never lets his tale descend into simple farce." - "The Times"<BR><BR>"[Discworld] has the energy of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the inventiveness of "Alice in Wonderland"...[Terry Pratchett] has an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things." - A.S. Byatt, "Sunday Times"
zlib_text: Terry Pratchett
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  A Novel of Discworld®
  
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  B eg in Reading
  Ab ou t the Au thor
  Praise
  O ther B ook s b y Terry Pratchett
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  Ab ou t the Pu b lisher
  
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  The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.
  It is danced under blue skies to celebrate the quickening of the soil and
  under bare stars because it’s springtime and with any luck the carbon
  dioxide will unfreeze again. The imperative is felt by deep-sea beings who
  have never seen the sun and urban humans whose only connection with the
  cycles of nature is that their Volvo once ran over a sheep.
  It is danced innocently by raggedy-bearded young mathematicians to
  an inexpert accordion rendering of “Mrs. Widgery’s Lodger” and ruthlessly
  by such as the Ninja Morris Men of New Ankh, who can do strange and
  terrible things with a simple handkerchief and a bell.
  And it is never danced properly.
  Except on the Discworld, which is flat and supported on the backs of
  four elephants which t