Unseen Academicals

Mass Market Paperback, 417 pages

English language

Published Oct. 4, 2010 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-116172-8
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OCLC Number:
526057694

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The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things—wisdom, magic, and their love of teatime—but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. And so when Lord Ventinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university put forth a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff—or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily meals—the more-than-usually-at-sea UU wizards find themselves in a quandary. To begin with, they have to figure out just what it is that makes this sport of foot-the-ball so popular with Ankh-Morporkians of all ages and social strata. Then they have to learn how to play it. Oh, and on top of that, they must win a football match without using magic.

And the thing about football—the most important thing about football—is that it is never just about football.

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  • Literature & Fiction -- Comic
  • Literature & Fiction -- Women's Fiction -- Single Women
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Authors, A-Z -- ( P ) -- Pratchett, Terry
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Fantasy

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