The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (the 42nd Anniversary Edition Of Douglas Adams's International Bestseller)

By (author) Adams Douglas
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A special 42nd anniversary edition of Douglas Adams''s mega-selling cult classic, with additional material from the Adams archives.
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‘Sheer delight’ – The Times

This 42nd Anniversary Edition includes exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction by Doctor Who showrunner, Russell T Davies.

An international phenomenon and pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show, TV series, novel, stage play, comic book and film. Following the galactic (mis)adventures of Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker’s in its various incarnations has captured the imaginations of curious minds around the world . . .

It''s an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he''s an alien. At this moment, they''re hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters, with the words: DON''T PANIC.

The weekend has only just begun . . .

Continue Arthur Dent''s intergalactic adventures in the rest of the trilogy with five parts: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.

Praise for Douglas Adams

‘One of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices’ – Independent on Sunday

‘Magical . . . read this book’ – Sunday Express

''A pleasure to read'' - New York Times

This novel has now been brought to the stage by Riverside Studios as an immersive show.

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Dazzlingly inventive
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Fizzing with ideas . . . Brilliant
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The first book that wasn’t by Roald Dahl that really made me laugh. Arthur Dent is this humdrum person in search of a cup of tea and ends up going on mind-blowing adventures. He is so ordinary and the circumstances are so extraordinary that it was the funniest thing I’d ever read
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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
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Really entertaining and fun
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Much funnier than anything John Cleese has written
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Who is John Cleese?
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I know for a fact that John Cleese hasn’t read it
Biographical note:

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Ga