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Rincewind the wizard and a sentient luggage chest stumble through a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a turtle.
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Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
Fool
King Lear retold by Pocket, the king's fool: bawdy, irreverent and, under all the jokes, surprisingly tender.
Kings of the Wyld
Clay Cooper, once of Saga, the most famous band of mercenaries in the land, is living quietly when his old frontman Golden Gabe asks him to get the band back together and cross a monster-filled wild to rescue Gabe's daughter from a besieged city.
The Hobbit
A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.
The Last Unicorn
A unicorn who has lived alone in her lilac wood since the world was young hears that she may be the last of her kind, and leaves to find out what happened to the others.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Twelve-year-old September, bored in Omaha, is carried off to Fairyland by the Green Wind and a Leopard, and soon finds herself on a quest against the tyrannical Marquess, with a library-loving dragon for company.
Howl's Moving Castle
A young hatmaker cursed by a witch to be an old woman takes shelter in the walking castle of a vain young wizard whose demon is burning through a contract with his heart.
The Hearing Trumpet
Marian Leatherby, ninety-two, deaf and toothless, is given a hearing trumpet by her friend Carmella, overhears her family planning to put her in a home, and is packed off to a strange institution for old women run by a cult of self-improvement.
The Princess Bride
A father reads his son the 'good parts' of an imaginary Florinese classic, and the framing and the fencing and the Sicilian and the six-fingered man turn out to be the most quoted comic fantasy in English.
Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
A grieving Chicago lawyer buys a magic kingdom from a department-store catalogue and discovers his new realm is broke, falling apart, and in need of a real king.
Lud-in-the-Mist
In Lud-in-the-Mist, a prosperous town that has banned all mention of the fairy country beyond its border, the mayor's son is caught eating fairy fruit, and Master Nathaniel Chanticleer has to go after him.
The Phantom Tollbooth
A bored American boy drives a toy tollbooth into a kingdom at war between the forces of Letters and Numbers and has to rescue two imprisoned princesses named Rhyme and Reason.