![]() Paul Kidby's cover parodies the famous Rembrandt painting The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, more commonly known as The Night Watch. ![]() A five-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from Februit featured Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes and Carl Prekopp as young Sam, and referenced the similar theme of a policeman unexpectedly being sent back in time from the series Life on Mars. The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The working title for this book was The Nature of the Beast, but this was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with exactly that title in the UK in late 2001. Night Watch is the 29th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2002. ![]() For the painting by Rembrandt, see Night Watch (painting) or The Wikipedia Page. This page is about the novel NIght Watch. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |