This article covers the novel; for the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm see Der Gevatter Tod .
Grim Reaper (Original Title: Mort) is a novel by Terry Pratchett . It is the fourth Discworld novel and the first with death as the protagonist. It was released in 1987. The title of the original Mort is also the name of the main character and at the same time a play on words with the French "mort", which means "death".
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An “ anthropomorphic personification” like death is practically in the cradle to be interested in the object that made it manifest in the world. So Tod's interest in all aspects of the human being is inherent in his form. In this novel, he comes across the concept of “training” and looks for an apprentice. He finds him in Mortimer , the lanky, red-haired son of an ambitious reanual wine farmer (someone who grows wine today who was already drunk yesterday).
Mort is an extreme clumsy man. No other master craftsman wants to train him. Death sets other priorities. He teaches him his "craft" and Mort does his job well at first. So good that Tod uses the advantages of having a formidable stand-in to advance his human studies, for example to experience the pleasure of dry fly fishing.
Mort meanwhile, by far not yet firmly established in the fulfillment of the duty, gives in to his compassion and his sense of justice and refuses to bring the death of the pretty Princess Keli. In doing so, he changes the course of history and puts the entire Discworld in danger.
When death comes across him, that only adds to his amusement to a certain extent. He punishes Mort with death. However, when he realizes how unhappy his adoptive daughter Ysabell is with this decision, he changes reality, marries the two together and sends them back to the real world.
The Scholars of the Disc World (1999, German 2004) • The Philosophers of the Round World. More from the scholars of the Discworld (2002, German 2004) • Darwin and the Gods of the Discworld (2005, German 2006) • The Last Judgment. The Science of Discworld 4 (2013, German 2013)
Other books
The Disc World from A – Z (with Stephen Briggs ; 1994, German 1996) • The Disc World Album (1996, German 2001) • GURPS Disc World (with Phil Masters ; 1998, German 1999) • Nanny Oggs Cookbook (1999, German 2001) . 2001) • GURPS Discworld Also (with Phil Masters ; 2001) • The Art of Discworld (2004, German 2006) • Where's my Cow (2005) • Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (2007, German 2010) • Myths and legends the Discworld (with Jacqueline Simpson ; 2008, German 2009) • The World of Poo (2012) • Fools, Thieves and Vampires - The best of ten years of Discworld calendars (with Stephen Briggs ; 2012, German 2012)
Discworld maps
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork - A Discworld Map (1993; Ger. 1996) • The Discworld Mapp (1995) • A Tourist Guide to Lancre - A Discworld Mapp (1998) • Death's Domain - A Discworld Mapp (1999) • More complete and indispensable Ankh-Morpork city guide (2012, German 2013) • Mrs. Bradshaw's most useful handbook for all routes of the Hygienic Railway Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plain (2014, German 2015)
The whole madness (2004, German 2007) • Big words (2012, German 2018) • Twisted dragon (2014, German 2015) • The vacuum-sucking fright screw (2016, German 2018)