Editing Mort (section)

{{Short description|1987 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett}}
{{about|the Discworld novel|other uses|Mort (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book
| name         = Mort 
| image        = Mort-cover.jpg
| caption      = First edition
| author       = [[Terry Pratchett]]
| illustrator  = 
| cover_artist = [[Josh Kirby]]
| language     = English
| series       = {{ubl|''[[Discworld]]''|4th novel – 1st Death story}}
| subject      = {{ubl|[[Anthropomorphism|Anthropomorphic]] [[personification]]s and [[death]]|'''Characters:'''|[[Death (Discworld)|Death]], [[Death (Discworld)#Lord Mortimer, Duke of Sto Helit|Mort]], [[Death (Discworld)#Lady Ysabell, Duchess of Sto Helit|Ysabell]], [[Albert (Discworld)|Albert]]|'''Locations:'''|Death's Domain}}
| genre     = [[Fantasy]]
| publisher = [[Victor Gollancz Ltd]] in association with [[Colin Smythe]]
| pub_date  = November 12, 1987
| pages     = 304
| isbn      = 0-575-04171-4
| oclc      = 16685210
| awards    = Came 65th in the [[Big Read]]
| preceded_by = [[Equal Rites]]
| followed_by = [[Sourcery]]
}}
'''''Mort''''' is a [[fantasy novel]] by British writer [[Terry Pratchett]]. Published in 1987, it is the fourth ''[[Discworld]]'' novel and the first to focus on the character [[Death (Discworld)|Death]], who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the name of its [[Death (Discworld)#Lord Mortimer, Duke of Sto Helit|main character]], and is also a play on words: in French and Catalan, ''mort'' means "death", while in Romanian it means "dead". The French language edition is titled ''Mortimer'', and the Catalan language edition is titled ''Morth''.

In 2004, Pratchett stated that ''Mort'' was the first Discworld novel with which he was "pleased", stating that in previous books, the plot had existed to support the jokes, but that in ''Mort'', the plot was integral.<ref name=Bookclub>{{cite AV media | people=James Naughtie (host); Terry Pratchett (guest) | date=4 July 2004 | title=Terry Pratchett | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fc3w5 | work=[[Bookclub (radio)|Bookclub]] | publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]] | access-date=25 March 2016 | time=3m27s/28m48s | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428131538/https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p02pnfzv.mp3 | archive-date=28 April 2023 | quote=The first couple of books were fun jokes at the expense of the fantasy universe. The plot was really there just to stop the front and back of the book banging together in the middle. And then I realised by ''Mort'', for the book to work, itʼs got to work as a book independently of the humor.  }}</ref>