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  Mort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett and also the name of its main character.
It is believed that Death chose Mort partly because Death himself has the nickname Mort (he is called this by the other members of the four horsemen), as well as Mort being the French word for death and the origin of several English words (for example mortal and post mortem).
Mort is the second novel to feature Ysabell (she was introduced in The Light Fantastic) and introduces Death's manservant Albert.
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 Mort (Discworld)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett and also the name of its character.
Published in 1987 it is the fourth Discworld novel the first to focus on Death who appeared as a side character in the novels.
It is believed that Death chose Mort because Death himself has the nickname Mort is called this by the other members the 4 horsemen) Mort being the French for death and the origin of several words (e.g.
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 Mort Discworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels.
It is believed that Death chose Mort partly because Death himself has the nickname Mort (he is called this by the other members of the 4 horsemen), Mort being the French word for death, and the origin of several English words (e.g.
The pressure of the job forces Mort to make a few mistakes, but like all good heroes, he grows some spine, gains some self control, challenges death to a duel and waltzes away with the girl...
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 Mort: Discworld #4 (Unabridged) Audio Book
Mort, like many teenagers, is gangly, unpromising, and struggling with a menial job - in his case, as...
Mort: Discworld #4 (Unabridged) was authored by Terry Pratchett and is narrated by Nigel Planer.
Mort: Discworld #4 (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
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 Mort (Discworld Novels (Paperback))
The coming-of-age aspect is nicely done, with Mort proceeding from an inept farmhand to become Death's apprentice and eventually his rival.
As is unfortunately typical in Discworld books, the ending is a mad scramble to tie up loose ends, but this is still one of the better Discworld novels.
The Discworld is run by various gods and consists of wizards, dragons, trolls, heroes, and various other figures that are accounted for in other fantasy novels.
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Mort is an unpromising, gangling teenager who becomes as apprent- ice to Death, but proves less than gifted at his new task of ush- ering souls out of the world.
MORT Death, having delegated most of his duties to his new apprentice, the uncompromising, gangling teenager Mort, is showing disturbing- ly human characteristics: drinking, dice-playing and becoming cur- ious about the nature of Fun.
But when Mort is left in charge for an evening, he allows his heart to rule his head and soon the whole of causality and the future of the Discworld itself, are at rist.
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 Mort (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) - Book
Mort begins to learn the craft of the Reaper, but Mort manages to cause a major problem in reality when someone who is supposed to die does not die (Mort's fault, naturally).
This is the most interesting of the first 4 Discworld novels, and since the series doesn't appear to follow any sort of important chronology (for the most part), Mort may be one of the better books to begin the series with.
Mort is still too human to perform his job in a detached way, and falls in love with the Princess Keli whose life he was supposed to take.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Mort (Discworld, Book 4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MORT presents an unlikely hero, an apprentice to Death who is bewildered by the role of Death and Fate in history.
But on Discworld, and in the hands of the master Terry Pratchett, a banal mid-life crisis is turned into another one of his hilarious and thought filled romps.
Mort's dad and relatives find him to be a well-intentioned but generally useless young man. Dad has been told that becoming an apprentice will get Mort off his hands and teach him a trade.
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 Encyclopedia: Mort (Discworld)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mort is a fictional character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
He first appears in the eponymous novel Mort.
Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
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 Terry Pratchett -- Mort (Discworld 4)
Chronologically, this is the fourth of the Discworld novels.
"Mort" is the first of the "Death" sub-series witin the larger Discworld series as a whole (which includes "The Reaper Man", "Soul Music" and "Hogfather").
The eath of the Discworld is an interesting character -- and he is very much a *character*, rather than an event or a Presence, though he is those, too.
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 Mort (Discworld) : Terry Pratchett/Mort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mort is the name of the main character in the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel of the same name.
It is believed that Death chose Mort partly because Death himself had the nickname Mort (he is called this by the other members of the 4 horsemen), Mort being the French word for death, and the origin of several English words (e.g.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Mort (Discworld) : Terry Pratchett/Mort.
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 Mort (Discworld) : Mort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He's a teenager as we would call him now, his family isn't so rich so one day his father decides to take him to the market, where, like in Bible, people came to take on some staff to help in work.
He said he was looking for a young man to assist him in work and picked up Mort.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Mort (Discworld) : Mort.
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 Books : Mort (A Discworld Novel)
This is the first novel from the Discworld series I've come across, and it's absolutely hilarious.
Meanwhile, his apprentice, Mort (short for Mortimer but everyone calls him Boy) is busy screwing up the nature of reality by falling in love with one of his intended victims.
Mort is a good book to read as your first Discworld novel; it has Pratchetts usual comic humour and a simple yet interesting plot.
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 LMT Tech Resource Store: Books : Mort (Discworld, Book 4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.
"Mort" describes what I would consider to be an accurate description of the reaction that any fifteen year old boy would have if Death showed up to offer apprenticeship to him.
This book, although shorter than most Discworld books, is a good one to start with, being easy to understand and full of Terry Pratchett's signature humor.
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 Mort - Terry Pratchett - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Mort - Terry Pratchett : "When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry."
Mort stands silently next to his father, the last remaining boy at the hiring fair.
Discworld is world of heroes, heroines, witches and wizards, where magic is a very real part of life and DEATH may just come to collect your soul in (non) person,...
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Mort (A Discworld Novel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mort himself is likeable, particular when he's the stupid "all knees" character at the beginning.
Mort is a good story, well told and hilarious in parts.
Mort's human origins [we don't know Death's] are a pitfall for an apprentice.
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 Mort: Discworld #4 audio book digital mp3 download
Mort, like many teenagers, is gangly, unpromising, and struggling with a menial job - in his case, as Death's apprentice.
He can barely handle his simple task of ushering souls out of Discworld, but he really screws up when he meets the beautiful Princess Keli, who is scheduled to be assassinated.
But Mort's heroism seems to be for naught, since Discworld proceeds as though Keli had been killed, while Death has too much fun drinking and gambling to be any help.
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 Mort (Discworld, Book 4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mort was no different -- a thoroughly engaging tale of adolescent love and an interesting internship.
Mort's journey as he goes from an awkward teenager to a more polished but still unsure version of himself as Death's apprentice is truly funny and laced with elements of real seriousness, just like life.
More than once I've found myself laughing out loud at Pratchett's writing, and I've decided that I can't start any of his books on any evening before I have to get up early, because I have yet to be able to put one down before it ends.
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 Powell's Books - Mort (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse — especially since being dead isn't compulsory.
The position of Death's apprentice is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Mort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While he appears, albeit briefly, in almost every Discworld novel, the character is, pardon the expression, rather thin.
On his first solo soul-collecting assignment, Mort discovers he can't allow the teenaged Princess Keli to be assassinated by her uncle the Duke, tries to prevent what is supposed to happen -- what *must* happen -- and, of course, messes thing up.
The final confrontation between Mort and Death is a marvelous set-piece.
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 Mort Discworld Novels Paperback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I think this is one of the funniest Discworld books.
I recommend it as a lighter read in the discworld novels.
Since Death is in just about all, if not every, discworld novel, it helps with some quips and jokes that come in later books.
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 Mort [Compact Discworld] Infos
Mort Walker s Private Scrapbook A Celebration Of 50 Years Of Comic Excellence
Mort d un pasteur : l affaire DoucÚ
Mort des bois [La] - Transfixions - Mort des neiges [La]
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 Pyramids (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) by buymore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The difference between this and many of the other Discworld novels is the fact that the characters are exclusively in Pyramids and no other book.
Pyramids (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) Terry Pratchet A young prince from the kingdom of Djelibeybi is sent off to Ankh-Morpork for training at the guild of Assassins.
Discworld The Discworld is the creation of Terry Pratchett.
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 Mort (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) : Bücher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Doch ist "Mort" nicht nur unheimlich komisch, sondern auch schrecklich spannend.
Mort ist ein Junge den niemand als Lehrling aufnehmen möchte.
Doch da Tod sehr viel zu tun hat nimmt er ihn als Lehrling auf.
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 Unseen Theatre Company - Discworld Books - Mort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Even towards the end when DEATH is lecturing Mort and is supposedly about to kill him, we have to giggle:" 'I INVITE YOU INTO MY HOME, he said.
I love the discworld and most I love Death because there is no caracter on the disc more funny and surprising.
I am in 7th grade I am doing the play mort with the rest of 7th and 8th grade, I am Ysabell and I am a boy al the same i love my part and the play.
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 [FAQ] Terry Pratchett Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Discworld non-fiction: %A Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs translated by Andreas Brandhorst %T Die Scheibenwelt von A - Z [The Discworld Companion] %I Goldmann %D 4/96 ISBN 3-442-43263-4 (large format p/b) "Der ultimative Fuehrer - handlich, praktisch, unverzichtbar!" %A Terry Pratchett %T Die Strassen von Ankh-Morport.
7a.5u The Discworld Companion ("updated" edition) %A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs %T The Discworld Companion %I Vista (p/b) %D 22/5/97 (in fact available by 17/5/97) ISBN 0575-60030-6 this is a minimum of (approximately) 14% greater in content, than the h/cvr (and b format p/b) first edition.
these are guesstimates] this includes a new discworld story by terry, illustrative of some of the main points made by ian stewart & jack cohen; the individual chapters have titles, but none is given in the book for the story as a whole.
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 Geometry.Net - Authors: Pratchett Terry
He is most famous for his Discworld series of books which currently contains 23 Novels (with at least 2 more forthcoming), 3 Maps and a Companion (encyclopedia of the Discworld), not to mention a quiz book, stage adaptations, audio-books, pottery figures and much much more...
The Discworld is a large round plate, on top of which people and gods live.
Bernard Pearson (the Cunning Artificer who has brought many of the Discworld's buildings to life) has agreed to let Andrew Welch auction a chance for one lucky bidder to have their name on his next Discworld piece.
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 Geometry.Net - Authors: Pratchett Terry
Mort (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) by Terry Pratchett, Victor Gollancz, 01 February, 2001
There have been three computer games based on Pratchett's Discworld, a couple of non-fiction books dealing with the science of the Discworld, a Discworld convention was held in late August in Hanover, Germany, there is a music CD called
On Discworld semaphore communication is still the fastest thing around (if you're not a wizard) and that makes the modems run very slowly.
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 The Internet Book Database of Fiction :: View topic - Terry Pratchett - Mort - 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the Discworld Death is more than simply the cessation of life.
Death heard that it was the done thing to have an apprentice - so he went out and got one.
Unlike Death, Mort is fully subject to emotions, this leads to trouble...
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 [FAQ] Terry Pratchett Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Discworld non-fiction: %A Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs translated by Andreas Brandhorst %T Die Scheibenwelt von A - Z [The Discworld Companion] %I Goldmann %D 4/96 ISBN 3-442-43263-4 (large format p/b) "Der ultimative Fuehrer - handlich, praktisch, unverzichtbar!" %A Terry Pratchett %T Die Strassen von Ankh-Morport.
In this calendar, with text from _The Discworld Companion_ (pub- lished in 1994/95), Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs provide a wealth of
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