![]() He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA".In addition to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams wrote or co-wrote three stories of the science fiction television series Doctor Who and served as Script Editor during the seventeenth season. ![]() The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. ![]() Description: Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ![]()
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I think it was only as I grew to love Ellador more than I believed anyone could love anybody, as I grew faintly to appreciate her inner attitude and state of mind, that I began to get some glimpses of this faith of theirs. Its deification of motherhood was obvious enough but there was far more to it than that or, at least, than my first interpretation of that. It took me a long time, as a man, a foreigner, and a species of Christian-I was that as much as anything-to get any clear understanding of the religion of Herland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anne-Solange Noble does not speak Yiddish. 'Well, actually, it's a German dialect,' he answered. 'It's a Jewish language, write it the Jewish way,' she said. The publisher, ready to print, tried to plead with her. Noble was ready to withdraw the permission for the Yiddish edition, if it did not get printed in Hebrew sc ript. The director in charge of foreign rights, Anne-Solange Noble, insisted that the Yiddish version of The Little Prince should be published in Hebrew sc ript, from right to left, with the drawings incorporated in order, with the Latin transc ript, if at all, appearing as an appendix. That is when the publishing plans were passed on to Gallimard, who sold the translation rights for 120 languages worldwide. The publisher was ready to go to print in May 2000, planning a bi-sc riptural edition: The Yiddish in Latin transc ription, read from left to right, and an appendix with the text in Hebrew sc ript. ![]() (.) There is a publisher in Germany which specializes in German dialects. Then he tried to interest Israeli publishers in his work: No takers. So he sat down and translated the book for himself, a true labor of love. He collects various editions of The Little Prince, what he lacked was a Yiddish version. ![]() ![]() He was born in the Soviet Union and spent two of his childhood years in refugee camps in post-war Germany before emigrating to Argentina with his parents, who eventually made their way to Israel. There was a beautiful article in an Israeli newspaper: "It all started with Shloyme Lerman. Found directly at Mundartverlag in Hanau. ![]() ![]() ![]() A suspect for the investigation, a target for the murderer, and attracting the attentions of a mysterious young admirer who may be connected to it all, Maddie's whole existence is about to be turned upside down. SYNOPSIS: Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. 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