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Unseen Academicals
Cover art by Paul Kidby
Co-author(s)
Illustrator(s)
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 13 Oct 2009
ISBN 0385609345
Pages 320
RRP
Main characters Mr. Nutt, Trevor Likely, Glenda Sugarbean, Juliet Stollop
Series Ankh-Morpork Series
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Notes
All data relates to the first UK edition.

Cover blurb

"Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

The prospect of the Big Match draws in a likely lad with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt. (No one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too.)

As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!"

Characters

Major Characters

Wizards

Minor Characters

Cameos and Mentions

Locations

Things and Concepts

Foot-the-ball sides

Gameday Iconograph

Lineup

Roundworld comparisons

That hack from Stratford-on Avon wrote a play about horny teenagers in Verona, Italy. This Discworld story centers on horny teenagers (well, not Glenda) who are fans of different foot-the-ball sides, but then again it doesn't. The name Dimwell seems close to Millwall, area and football club in London noted for the belligerence of their supporters. Uberwald is a roundworld reference to Germany. The orcs are symbolic for modern Germans. All books that Nutt cites have German titles. Today, Germans have problems with their place in history, because of their role in the war, just like the orcs, even several generations afterwards. Uberwald actually translates as over the forest as does Transylvania. The books have German titles because Freud is the father of psychology.

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Annotations for Unseen Academicals


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