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Mostly Harmless Paperback - 2000
by Adams, Douglas
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- Paperback
The fifth hilarious novel in the classic "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series follows the exploits of Arthur Dent, who has to adjust to a new life when his spaceship crashes on a remote planet. "If you were hoping for more of the zany, nonsensical, mayhem produced in the earlier books, you're in luck." --"The New York Times Book Review."
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Details
- Title Mostly Harmless
- Author Adams, Douglas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ballantine Books 2000-02-01, New York, New York
- Publication date 2000-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000064262
- ISBN 9780345418777 / 0345418778
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 6.98 x 4.36 x 0.65 in (17.73 x 11.07 x 1.65 cm)
- Size 0.7300 in x 8.4300 in x 5.8500 i
- Reading level 910
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Science fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99091508
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
It's easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit--and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there's the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn't even know he had one.Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?From the Trade Paperback edition.
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First line
The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway.
From the rear cover
It's easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on is a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and, immediately, all hell breaks loose.
Hell takes a number of forms: there is the usual Ford Prefect form of hell, fresh hell in the form of an all-new version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected hell in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn't even know he had one.
Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself?
Of course not. He never works out what is going on, exactly. Will you?
