The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable

Me gusto mucho, tan cual se ve en las fotos y llego en la fecha establecida.

Incrível a história, como todo Pratchett, é excelente qualidade do objeto livro, com ilustrações bonitas e diagramação bem feita. O livro também é o maior da coleção TP quanto às dimensões AxL.

なんとこの本、全頁カラーです。しかも、基本的に見開き＜つまり、二頁ごとに＞挿絵が載っていて、文字数の多い厚い絵本と言ったところです。Kidby氏の絵がとにかく素晴らしいです。珍妙にして格好よい、線も色も美しい作風です。絵を見ているだけで楽しめますので英語が出来ない人でも、Kidby氏の絵が好きな人なら、画集として手元にこの大型の本を置かれるのも良いでしょう。

Una obra maestra tanto en escritura (Terry Pratchett) como en ilustraciones (Paul Kidby). Este libro es una pieza indispensable para cualquier fan de la saga del Mundodisco.

"The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable", is a basically Discworld novella by Terry Pratchett that is lavishly illustrated by Paul Kidby, coming in at around 160 pages, about half of which are in large-font text which tells the story, and the other half are illustrations, character portraits, and other fun stuff.Back in the 1980's, I discovered Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels not too long after he began publishing them, and I eagerly bought each new book as it was released. My favorite leading character was Rincewind, but as time went by, Mr Pratchett centered his books around other, different leading characters and poor Rincewood faded mostly away. Nothing wrong with that, as to a certain extent, Rincewind is pretty much a one-trick pony, and Mr Pratchett couldn't grow the Discworld universe around just one character, but I wasn't as interested in many of the newer characters. After about 20 or so books, I kind of lost interest in the series, but I've generally kept my eye out for any stories containing Rincewind in any significant degree. So, I was pleased to recently discover "The Last Hero".The story focuses around the aged Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde's attempt to return fire to the gods by delivering the Discworld equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Unknown to Cohen, this act basically would destroy Discworld. Cohen is old, and having basically beaten, robbed, or conquered everything on Discworld at one time or another, is bored and doesn't want to die of old age. He doesn't really believe he can beat the gods, though, and just wants to go out in a blaze of glory. However, Cohen being Cohen, he could potentially pull it off.Various well-known characters and factions on the planet find out about Cohen's attempt, and band together to put a team forward to attempt to deflect Cohen from his purpose. (Rincewind, happily, is an involuntary part of the team.) The story is well written and entertaining, and the illustrations fit well with the text. My favorite illustration is of Verna the Ravenhaired, who basically looks like the kindly (but still deadly) grandmother she's become, but is dressed in chainmail and clutching a long, well-used sword.I enjoyed the book and enjoyed re-visiting Discworld again after so long of an absence.