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An edition of Life, the Universe and Everything (1900)

Life, the Universe and Everything

1st Pocket Books printing (9)

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GO TO THE END-OF-THE WORLD PARTY, BRING YOUR PINK TOWEL, AND FIND OUT IF POTATOES ARE THE ANSWER TO...LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING

Join Arthur Dent, earthling, "jerk," kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast, two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox...and learn to fly.

Is it the end? With Douglas Adams, it's always up in the air!
--back cover

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Pocket Books
Language
English
Pages
227

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Subjects

sofas, xenophobia, bird language, paradoxes, Infinite Improbability Drive, Heart of Gold, reverse engineering, The Ashes, Wikkit Gate, Trilogy of Five, Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Fantasy, Science Fiction, space-time eddy, Anachronism, Ford Prefect (Fictitious character), Arthur Dent (Fictitious character), Interstellar travel, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, science fiction, general, Dent, arthur (fictitious character), fiction, Prefect, ford (fictitious character), fiction, English literature, Dent, Arthur (Fictitious character) Fiction, Prefect, Ford (Fictitious character) Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general

People

Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent, Slartibartfast, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Vogons, Agrajag, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Hactar

Places

Earth, Lord's Cricket Ground, Krikkit, Stavromula Beta

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Life, the Universe and Everything
2017, GOLLANCZ
Paperback in English - printing (1)
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Life, The Universe And Everything: Volume Three in the Trilogy of Five
2016, Pan Books
paperback in English - printing (2)
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Life, the Universe and Everything
2005, Del Rey, Del Rey / Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 2005 Del Rey Books mass-market edition (18); movie tie-in
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Cover of: Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest
Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest
2004, Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins
in German
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Life, the Universe and Everything
1987?, Pocket Books
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Life, the Universe and Everything
1983-10, Pocket Books
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Life, the universe, and everything: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 3
1982, Pan Books, Pan Books Ltd
Mass Market Paperback in English - printing (19)
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Life, The Universe, and Everything
1982, Harmony Books
Hardcover in English - 1st ed. (3)
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Life, the Universe and Everything
1982, Harmony Books
Hardcover in English - [Book club edition]
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Life, the Universe and Everything
1982, Harmony Books
Hardcover in English - 1st edition (8)
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Published in
New York
Series
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, #3
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6051.D3352 L5 1985

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
227 p. ;
Number of pages
227

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24212506M
Internet Archive
lifeuniverseever00adam
ISBN 10
0671601075
ISBN 13
9780671601072
LCCN
82015470
OCLC/WorldCat
16618643
Google
1d5JEAfTAKEC
Goodreads
45445508

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Life, the Universe and Everything is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction "trilogy" by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.


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