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Watership Down

By Richard Adams
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Watership Down follows a courageous band of rabbits who flee their endangered warren in search of a safer home. Led by Hazel and his prophetic brother Fiver, they navigate a perilous world filled with predators and human threats, forging friendships and dreaming of a peaceful life on the idyllic slopes of Watership Down.
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Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent?

Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is . . .

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40th anniversary edition of the picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits that is one of the most beloved novels of our time.

Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent?

So together, Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety and strictures of the warren and hop tentatively out into a vast and strange world.

Chased by their former friends, hunted by dogs and foxes, avoiding farms and other human threats, but making new friends, Hazel and his fellow rabbits dream of a new life in the emerald embrace of Watership Down.

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Critically acclaimed, this novel is celebrated for its vivid world-building and compelling storytelling. The Guardian praises it as a perfectly realised world with meaningful reflections on human affairs, while the Sunday Times calls it stunning and compulsive. The Sunday Telegraph notes its poetic storytelling that appeals across generations, and the Evening Standard describes it as a masterpiece akin to The Wind in the Willows. The New York Times hails it as extraordinarily well-crafted and memorable.

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ISBN: 9780241953235

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 October 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 349g

Pages: 496

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About the Author

Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the Civil Service. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults, and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Richard Adams wrote many novels and short stories, including Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He died in 2016, aged 96.

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