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Course Hero. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Study Guide." Course Hero. 28 Nov. 2016. Web. 15 May 2021. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/>.
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Course Hero. (2016, November 28). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved May 15, 2021, 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 May 15, 2021. 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 May 15, 2021, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/.
Douglas Adams
1979
Novel
Science Fiction
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.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is written in the past tense.
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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