Death takes Mort to his domain, where he meets Death's elderly manservant Albert, and his adopted daughter Ysabell. Just before the last stroke of midnight, Death arrives and takes Mort on as an apprentice (though his father thinks he has been apprenticed to an undertaker). Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an apprenticeship not only would this provide a job for his son, but it would also make his son's propensity for thinking someone else's problem. Plot summary Īs a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business. In 2004, Pratchett stated that Mort was the first Discworld novel with which he was "pleased", stating that in previous books, the plot had existed to support the jokes, but that in Mort, the plot was integral. In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the "Nation's Best-loved Book" Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels. The French language edition is titled Mortimer, and the Catalan language edition is titled Morth. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French and Catalan, mort means "death". Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett.
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