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By (author) Adams, Douglas
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The fifth and final installment of The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from Dirk Maggs.
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”One of the world”s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices” – Independent on Sunday
This 42nd Anniversary Edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Dirk Maggs, co-producer of BBC Radio 4”s The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases.
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Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part in Douglas Adams” much-loved cult classic series, The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy.
Arthur Dent hadn”t had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up.
After years of galactic wanderings, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter.
There”s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe.
After all – he”s encountered most of them before . . .
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Praise for Douglas Adams:
”A pleasure to read” – New York Times
”Magical . . . read this book” – Sunday Express
”Sheer delight” – The Times
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One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius
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Dazzlingly inventive
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Fizzing with ideas . . . Brilliant
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It changed my whole life. It”s literally out of this world
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Really entertaining and fun
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Hitchhiker’s is packed with that unique energy, all barmy and bristling and bold. This book can be witty, iconoclastic, godless, savage, sweet, surreal, but above all, it dares to be silly. Fiercely, beautifully silly
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He had almost a Wodehousian style and some of his phrases and jokes entered our language. He changed the way people spoke
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There has never been another writer remotely like Douglas Adams. He discovered a completely new genre – scientific wit – and having discovered it he raised it to dizzying heights
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Quite good I suppose, if you like brilliantly entertaining books written with a touch of imaginative genius
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Very occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you laugh and what you laugh about
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One of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices
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Sheer delight
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Magical . . . read this book
Biographical note:
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker”s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
In addition to Hitchhiker, He is also the author of the Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently”s Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.
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Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final part
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