The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Essay Example
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams
About the author: Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.
He was creator of all the various manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan and was nominated for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.
He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); and Mostly Harmless (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhiker series were adapted into a 6 part television series, which was an immediate success when first aired in 1982.
He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack. He was 49. He had been living in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and daughter, and at the time of his death he was working on the screenplay for a feature film version of Hitchhiker.
Characters:
Arthur Dent:
He is the most important person in this book.
Ford Perfect:
He is Arthur's best friend and an alien.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
He is the president of the imperial galactic government.
Trillian:
She got picked up from the earth by Zaphod years ago after a party.
Mr. L. Prosser:
He wants to tear up Arthur's house.
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz:
He is an alien (the boss of the Vogons) and he is very ugly.
Summary:
This story begins with a house on a terrible stupid Thursday. Arthur woke up this morning and didn't feel very good. He got up
About the author: Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.
He was creator of all the various manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan and was nominated for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.
He followed this success with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything (1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); and Mostly Harmless (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhiker series were adapted into a 6 part television series, which was an immediate success when first aired in 1982.
He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.
Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 of a sudden heart attack. He was 49. He had been living in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and daughter, and at the time of his death he was working on the screenplay for a feature film version of Hitchhiker.
Characters:
Arthur Dent:
He is the most important person in this book.
Ford Perfect:
He is Arthur's best friend and an alien.
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
He is the president of the imperial galactic government.
Trillian:
She got picked up from the earth by Zaphod years ago after a party.
Mr. L. Prosser:
He wants to tear up Arthur's house.
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz:
He is an alien (the boss of the Vogons) and he is very ugly.
Summary:
This story begins with a house on a terrible stupid Thursday. Arthur woke up this morning and didn't feel very good. He got up