# The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Paperback

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by **Douglas Adams** (Author)

**_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . \[and\] over much too soon."--_The Washington Post Book World_**

**Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_!**

**Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's _The Great American Read_**

It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien.

After that, things get much, much worse.

With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.

Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

### Front Jacket

Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic!  
By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Ford, posing as an out-of-work actor, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together the gruesome twosome begin their now-famous inter-galactic journey through time, space and best-sellerdom.  
For Hitchhiker fanatics (you know who you are!) who've read the books, seen the television program, and listened to the radio show, as well as newcomers to Douglas Adams's unique universe -- remember -- don't panic, don't forget to bring a towel, and don't forget to celebrate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's tenth anniversary by wearing your bathrobe.

"From the Hardcover edition.

### Author Biography

**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.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** June 23, 1997

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 6.6

**Point Value:** 8

## Details

- **Price:** 18.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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