{"product_id":"9780552166614-equal-rites-boriginaldw-3","title":"Equal Rites","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Discworld Novel 3)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first book in the\u003ci\u003e Witches \u003c\/i\u003eseries, part of the \u003ci\u003eDiscworld\u003c\/i\u003e novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eit’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e not half so bad as a lot of ignorance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last thing the wizard \u003cb\u003eDrum Billet\u003c\/b\u003e did, before \u003cb\u003eD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eeath \u003c\/b\u003elaid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check that the baby in question \u003ci\u003ewas\u003c\/i\u003e a son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverybody knows that there's no such thing as a female wizard. 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