Pyramids (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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Pyramids is split into four ‘Books’, a structure that gives it a unique position amongst the otherwise chapterless Discworld novels (The Colour of Magic doesn’t really count — it’s a collection of linked novellas, not a single novel with chapters or sections).

Book I is The Book of Going Forth, which refers to The Book of Going Forth By Day, (see the annotation for p. 9/9 of The Light Fantastic). Book II is The Book of the Dead, a more direct reference to the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Book III is The Book of the New Son which puns on the title of the Gene Wolfe SF novel The Book of the New Sun (perhaps there is an earlier title both authors are drawing on, but I haven’t been able to trace it). Book IV, finally, is The Book of 101 Things A Boy Can Do, which gives a nod to the typical titles sported a few decades ago by books containing wholesome, innocent, practical, but above all educational activities for children.