The Fifth Elephant

ethnic identities, Russian plays, immigration, condoms, and evangelical Christianity—in short, most everything worth talking about.”
    Publishers Weekly, starred review
    “Discworld takes the classic fantasy universe through its logical, and comic evolution.”
    Cleveland Plain Dealer
    “Trying to summarize the plot of a Pratchett novel is like describing Hamlet as a play about a troubled guy with an Oedipus complex and a murderous uncle. Pratchett isn’t Shakespeare—for one thing, he’s funnier—but his books are richly textured, and far more complex than they appear at first.”
    Barbara Mertz
    and Terry Pratchett
    “Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English language satirists.”
    Publishers Weekly
    “Unadulterated fun…witty, frequently hilarious.”
    San Francisco Chronicle
    “Truly original…Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz…Has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland …Brilliant!”
    A. S. Byatt
    “For lighthearted escape with a thoughtful center, you can’t do better than…any…Discworld novel.”
    Washington Post Book World
    “If I were making my list of Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Terry Pratchett’s would be most of them.”
    Elizabeth Peters
    “Consistently, inventively mad…wild and wonderful!”
    Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
    “Simply the best humorous writer of the twentieth century.”
    Oxford Times
    “A brilliant story-teller with a sense of humour…whose infectious fun completely engulfs you…The Dickens of the twentieth century.”
    Mail on Sunday (London)
    “The funniest parodist working in the field today, period.”
    New York Review of Science Fiction
    “Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did for science fiction.”
    Today (Great Britain)

A LSO BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun Strata
    Truckers
    Diggers
    Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead
    Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD S ERIES
    The Color of Magic *
    The Light Fantastic *
    Equal Rites *
    Mort
    Sourcery
    Wyrd Sisters
    Pyramids
    Guards! Guards!
    Eric (with Josh Kirby) Moving Pictures
    Reaper Man
    Witches Abroad
    Small Gods*
    Lords and Ladies *
    Men at Arms *
    Soul Music *
    Feet of Clay *
    Interesting Times *
    Maskerade *
    Hogfather *
    Jingo *
    The Last Continent *
    Carpe Jugulum *
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)

    *Published by HarperPrism

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    THE FIFTH ELEPHANT . Copyright © 2000 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    EPub Edition © AUGUST 2007 ISBN: 9780061806759
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