The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, book 1
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...
| Main Author: | Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001. |
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| Other Authors: | Fry, Stephen, 1957- |
| Format: | Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House Audio,
2006.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
| Series: |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here. |
| Summary: |
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! |
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| Item Description: |
Unabridged. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (5 audio files) : digital |
| Playing Time: |
05::5:1: |
| Format: |
Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 165130 KB). |
| Audience: |
Text Difficulty 9 - Text Difficulty 12 |
| ISBN: |
9780739349366 |
| Author Notes: |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979, one of his bestselling humor and science fiction novels, was originally a radio series. It was the first in a four-book series that includes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe, and Everything, and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. He once stated that the idea for his first novel came while he was "lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck and gazing at the stars." He pokes fun at humanity by mixing science fiction with humor. Adams's additional books include The Meaning of Liff; The Deeper Meaning of Liff; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul; and Mostly Harmless. He has also co-authored the book Last Chance to See, about endangered species. Douglas Adams died May 11, 2001 of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 49. (Bowker Author Biography) |