The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 285
- ISBN-13
- 9781597770088
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul followed in 1988 at 285 pages, sending Dirk after a suspiciously involved Norse mythology a year after the first novel.
Key facts about The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams wrote The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1988. The book has 285 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781597770088 to find the main one.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is book 2 of 3 in the Dirk Gently series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987).
Additionally, Douglas Adams writes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Salmon of Doubt is the latest published Douglas Adams book on file, from 2002.
About Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was an English writer and humorist whose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy became one of the most influential comic science fiction works of the twentieth century. See every Douglas Adams book in order.
Its place in Dirk Gently
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is book 2 in the Dirk Gently series. It follows Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It is followed by The Salmon of Doubt. See the full Dirk Gently reading order.
Dirk Gently is a self-proclaimed 'holistic' private detective who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, which in practice means he investigates cases by following whatever coincidence catches his attention rather than conventional deduction -- a structure that let Douglas Adams fold time travel, ghosts, a reconstructed sofa stuck on a staircase, and (in the first novel) an alien warrior race's mistaken visit to prehistoric Earth into ostensibly straightforward English mystery plots. Dirk…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597770088