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Course Hero. (2016, November 28). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved December 16, 2018, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/
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Course Hero. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Study Guide." November 28, 2016. Accessed December 16, 2018. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/.
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Course Hero, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Study Guide," November 28, 2016, accessed December 16, 2018, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/.
Overview
Author
Douglas Adams
Year Published
1979
Type
Novel
Genre
Science Fiction
Perspective and Narrator
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is told from an omniscient narrator's point of view. Entries from the electronic guidebook of the same name are cited to fill in information gaps and to bridge events.
Tense
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is written in the past tense.
About the Title
The title, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, references the electronic guidebook of the same name that plays a key role in the story. The double guidebook is a version of the literary technique called a story within a story. With this device, readers are pushed to consider the ways in which the two guides mirror or contrast each other and to what end.
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