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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES - Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod's girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he's bought over the years. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars Praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "A whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy."--Publishers Weekly "Irresistable "--The Boston Globe
Author: Douglas Adams
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 08/03/2004
Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.44w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781400052929
25th Anniversary Edition
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7109 / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
About the Author
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
Author: Douglas Adams
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 08/03/2004
Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.44w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781400052929
25th Anniversary Edition
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7109 / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
About the Author
Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio, novels, TV, computer games, stage adaptations, comic book, and bath towel. He was born in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.