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Work InformationWatership Down by Richard Adams (1972)
  
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  ) AngelZR | Dec 27, 2024 |   ) itheodore | Dec 26, 2024 |  ) jwhenderson | Dec 7, 2024 | ) alicatrasi | Nov 28, 2024 | Otherwise, the story was cute but seemed to drag on. With each new event I thought "surely, this alone would have made a great kids book...how can there still be 200 pages or 300 pages left?" But, the end was great and almost made up for the excess 200 pages or so. ( ) Trisha_Thomas | Nov 13, 2024 |
 Watership Down offers little to build a literary cult upon. On the American-whimsy exchange, one Tolkien hobbit should still be worth a dozen talking rabbits.  This bunny-rabbit novel not only steers mostly clear of the usual sticky, anthropomorphic pitfalls of your common garden-variety of bunny rabbit story: it is also quite marvelous for a while, and after it stops being marvelous, it settles down to be pretty good- a book you can live with from start to finish.  It simply isn't possible. At this date, you cannot write a story about rabbits, 413 pages long, and hold a reader riveted. But Richard Adams has done exactly that in Watership Down (Rex Collings, £3.50). This is a great book, establishing a more than plausible and totally fascinating psychology and physiology for its rabbits, together with their own mythology and language. It sounds formidable, perhaps; yet what one's aware of, reading, is a story of the most exciting kind, remaining taut over all those pages. It's set in a precise part of Berkshire (map provided) – the hejira of a group of rabbits who accept a clairvoyant companion’s prophecy that their warren will be destroyed; their establishment of a new home and their search for mates – this leading to war with a warren ruled by the protectively totalitarian General Woundwort. A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs. Is contained inHas the adaptationInspiredHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. No library descriptions found. 
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