The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Maurice, the cat ( English Title: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett. It's the twenty-eighth Discworld novel, however, was initially conceived as a fantastic children's book. So Terry Pratchett won his first major book prize, which is awarded annually, Carnegie Medal of the British book trade for the best children's book of the year.

Maurice, the cat was published in 2001. The scene is a spa resort in Bad Blintz About Forest. Maurice, the cat belongs to the cultural stories and the title hero Maurice also has the most prominent role in the lucrative Pied trick. Otherwise, the story leans heavily on the Pied Piper of Hamelin and was probably inspired by the works of Beatrix Potter.

German edition

Manhattan ( Goldmann ), 2004, ISBN 3-442-54570-6

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Maurice, the cat is a book about the ambivalent relationship between humans and animals, but also between animal and animal, if, as the animal involved of speaking are powerful in this case. Who is the person benefiting there and if that's even the right question must be almost new fully discussed every minute. Maurice, the protagonist and namesake, is an alley cat with Scarface and tattered ears. Maurice fears that thought and speech are happened to him after he had eaten one of the new, intelligent rats who live on the refuse heap of Unseen University. Since he now works with these rats, he even knows her name, she was called preservatives

A dream is driving the Modified how the rat clan is called also progressing. On a desert island they want to establish a primary rat civilization. Maurice, a real street cat who knows how the world works and that you need for as little money. He organized, with the rats and with a stupid -looking boy named Keith, a profitable business.

The clan consists of about 100 members. Once they reach a new city, they stage initially impressive a plague of rats. You pee in the milk, swimming in the toilet and steal seniors the dentures from the mouth. Such impudence raise citizens quickly the desire for a definitive solution to the rat problem. Just in that moment, Maurice and Keith, the flute player, and offer their expensive services. After they have collected vigorously, the rats Piper lures the rats out of the city and the party disappears, never to return.

Dangerous Beans, the first rats philosopher, considers this action to be unethical. In Bad Blintz, a spa town in Over Forest, is to come for the last time to the performance of the Pied Piper trick. You move off the local rabble-rousers in the way, who have just run a separate, much meaner, rip on. Will be a fight to the death, finally win the Maurice and the communities just off the harmless fraud. With the evidence against the rogues among the people in the paws, negotiate the rats and the city council, ultimately successful, to find a peaceful coexistence between human and rat. The rat clan is in Bad Blintz a tourist attraction and all live happy and content, except for - Maurice. He looks for the next stupid -looking boy to rehearse with him a new, sensational trick. Namely people want to be cheated.