Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
On a hot night in August 1995 Douglas Adams gave a barnstorming performance to an invited audience at the Almeida Theatre in London. This compact disc is a record of that remarkable event. Douglas gives dramatic solo performances of episodes and passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe and Everything. Including: How to Fly! Arthur and the Irrational Sofa and much, much...more.
...Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Description
This is a story about two friends who've known each other for a while. At least Arthur Dent thinks so until Ford Prefect reaveals that he's actually an alien and that the world is about to end!
Not long after their conversation, a Vogon spaceship appears and announces that earth will be destroyed shortly because it is in the way of a new intergalactic highway bypass that is being built through our galaxy. Ford and Arthur manage to board the ship...
Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Description
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, after being thrown out of a Vogon spaceship, are quickl picked up by another ship called the "Heart of Gold", which houses the stolen Infinite Improbability Drive - a device that make the improbable happen. They arrive on the long, lost planet Magrathea to figure out what to do about their non-existent planet Earth.
Douglas Adams' wildly funny, wickedly clever sci-fi novel is collected here as a three-installment, comic...
Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Description
On the long, lost planet Magrathea, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and their space-traveling friends discover that the earth was really a giant organic computer that was working on finding the meaning of life. But 5 minutes before the program was done, the planet was destroyed. Ah, the irony!
Douglas Adams' wildly funny, wickedly clever sci-fi novel is collected here as a three-installment, comic ebook series. So grab your towel, stick a babel fish...
Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Description
From a quiet morning on prehistoric Earth to a war-torn cricket field to the fastest spaceship in existence - what's a temporally displaced Earthman to do?
Join Arthur Dent, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, Slartibartfast, and yes, Marvin the Paranoid Android on their obviously hilarious journeys in the first installment of the comic ebook series, Life, the Universe and Everything. Adapted from the third novel of Douglas Adams's classic sci-fi satire series,...
Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Description
"Prehistoric castaways Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent have escaped from prehistoric Earth on a Chesterfield sofa...only to find the Universe is about to be destroyed by the obsessive people of Krikkit."
So begins the second installment of the comic ebook series, Life, the Universe and Everything. Adapted from the third novel of Douglas Adams's classic sci-fi satire series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Author
Publisher
childrensElibrary
Language
English
Description
Arthur Dent...superhero? Is it possible? Yes!
In the final installment of the comic ebook series, Life, the Universe and Everything, you will see the mild-mannered victim Arthur Dent turn distinctly heroic; Trillian unraveling the mystery enshrouding the planet Krikkit; and Marvin the Paranoid Android taking great pleasure - no, really! - in destroying the Krikkit robots. Adapted from the third novel of Douglas Adams's classic sci-fi satire series,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
C. S. Lewis's illuminating reflections on Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis's own.
In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apologist and revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton's masterpiece, a retelling of the biblical story of the Fall of Humankind, Satan's temptation, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the author’s travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or canticas, is one example of the number three as a theme throughout the work. Each book consists of 33 cantos, which added to an introductory canto, totals 100. Each cantica follows a pattern of 9 phases plus 1 for a total of ten—9 circles of hell plus Lucifer,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific collection of writings, has become core reading in philosophy. Clear and accessible, this little book is an intelligible and stimulating guide to those problems of philosophy which often mistakenly make the subject seem too lofty...
