Eric (Isis) [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

"Humorously entertaining? and thought provoking."Chicago Tribune"Unadulterated fun. Pratchett parodies everything in sight."San Francisco Chronicle"A hearty dose of comedy and genuine slapstick humor."Library Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is the Discworld's most incompetent wizard . . . --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain. Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend stars many of the Discworld's most popular characters in an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more - this time, quite fervently, that he'd never been born . --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

TERRY PRATCHETT

ERIC

A DISCWORLD® NOVEL

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker.Pity he's not very good at it.

All he wants is three wishes granted.Just the usual: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman in the world fall in love with him. He wants to call up a tractable demon. But what he gets is Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage...

With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he'd never been born.

'[Terry Pratchett's] genius is for pushing logic to such limits that it reels with the shock'

Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph

Tony Robinson is a successful writer, actor and documentary-maker. Star of radio, TV and theatre, he is well-known for the popular TV series Time Team and his role as Baldrick in Blackadder.

Terry Pratchett is the author of the phenomenal Discworld series and is one of contemporary fiction's most popular writers.He was awarded an OBE in 1998 and his first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.

--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is a publishing phenomenon. He was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours; previously he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in 1998. He has been awarded six honorary doctorates, and has won the Carnegie Medal and the Michael Prinz Award. He lives near Salisbury in Wiltshire. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.