Thanks to the abundance of gold in his homeland, Twoflower, though only a clerk, is immensely rich compared to inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork. The main character is an incompetent and cynical wizard named Rincewind, who is hired as a guide to naive Twoflower, an insurance clerk from the Agatean Empire who has come to visit Ankh-Morpork.

The story begins in Ankh-Morpork, the biggest city on the Discworld.

The surface of the disc contains oceans and continents, and with them, civilisations, cities, forests and mountains. The story takes place on the Discworld, a planet-sized flat disc carried through space on the backs of four gargantuan elephants – Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen – who themselves stand on the shell of Great A'Tuin, a gigantic star turtle. Pratchett has described it as 'an attempt to do for the classical fantasy universe what Blazing Saddles did for Westerns.' Plot summary Setting

The first printing of the British edition consisted of only 506 copies. The Colour of Magic is a 1983 fantasy comedy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series.

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