![]() The main character is an incompetent and cynical wizard named Rincewind, who is hired as a guide to naive Twoflower, an insurance clerk from the Agatean Empire who has come to visit Ankh-Morpork. The story begins in Ankh-Morpork, the biggest city on the Discworld. The surface of the disc contains oceans and continents, and with them, civilizations, cities, forests and mountains. The story takes place on the Discworld, a planet-sized flat disc carried through space on the backs of four gargantuan elephants – Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen – who themselves stand on the shell of Great A'Tuin, a gigantic star turtle. Pratchett has described it as "an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns." Plot summary Setting ![]() ![]() The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series. ![]()
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