"Last Hero. The Legend of the Flat World ” ( eng. The Last Hero. A Discworld Fable ) is a humorous fantasy by the English writer Terry Pratchett , written in 2001 .
| Last Hero | |
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| general information | |
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| Series | Flat world |
| Previous | Thief of time |
| Next | Amazing Maurice and his rodent scientists |
| Type of | |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Original version | |
| Title | The last hero |
| Language | English |
| Publishing house | Victor Gollancz |
| The year of publishing | 2001 |
| Russian version | |
| Translator | N. Berdennikov, A. Zhikarentsev |
| Decor | Paul Kidby |
| Publishing house | Exmo |
| The year of publishing | 2006 |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN | ISBN 5-699-17413-3 , 0-575-06885-X |
The twenty-seventh book from the Flat World series, the seventh book from the series about the wizard Rincewind .
Unlike most of Terry Pratchett’s works, the story of Cohen the Barbarian’s last feat was originally created as an alloy of literary content and graphic form. [one]
Content
- 1 Abstract
- 2 Story
- 3 main characters
- 4 Edition Information
- 5 Allusions
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Annotation
Once upon a time, the great Hero stole Fire from the gods. Since then, everything has changed. Heroes became ... obsolete. They are still invincible and all that, but they are becoming less and less ... and less ... And new ones are not born.
And once Cohen-Barbarian looked from his throne to the Agate Empire on his subjects, to the great and terrible Silver Horde, and realized that they were the last. And after them there will be no one. So, it is precisely on them that the Last Duty of Heroes lies - to return the Fire to the gods.
With interest.
Story
Protagonists
- Cohen Barbarian
- Shchebotansky Leonard
- Havlock vitinari
- Carrot Reinforced concrete
- Rincewind
- Wizards of the Unseen University
Edition Information
The Last Hero is an illustrated novel (illustrations by Paul Kidby). The Russian edition corresponds to the first English edition. The second English edition ( 2002 ) added 16 pages to the book with additional illustrations.
Allusions
Like all Pratchett’s books, The Last Hero contains a huge number of allusions and references to works of art in our real world. For example, a conversation between a patrician and Leonard about the dangers lurking in inventions is an allusion to the emperor’s words from Ray Bradbury ’s short story “A Man in the Air”. Leonardo’s words “Look at the birds!” Are the last words of this story.