Watership Down

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Simon and Schuster, 1996 - Fiction - 429 pages
Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—now a Emmy Award-winning Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, and Oscar and Grammy award-winning Sir Ben Kingsley.

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.
 

Contents

The Notice Board
3
The Crow and the Beanfield
9
Cannon Heath
46
The Story of the Kings Lettuce
83
The Shining Wire
95
Fear in the Dark
116
A Honeycomb and a Mouse
125
21
135
The Great River
261
General Woundwort
272
Groping
281
Approaching Thunder
297
The Thunder Builds Up
302
The Thunder Breaks
312
HAZELRAH
313
1
320

The Story of the Trial of Elahrairah
145
Tumuli
153
23
160
Nuthanger Farm
176
Ecchinswell
179
The Raid
184
Fiver Beyond
201
You Cant Imagine It Unless Youve Been There
205
At the Foot of the Hill
217
Return and Departure
225
EFRAFA
233
A New Journey
235
The Story of Elahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé
241
Across the Iron Road
254
Crossing
260
The Bridges
331
The Way Back
342
The Story of Rowsby Woof and the Fairy Wogdog
354
News at Sunset
365
The Great Patrol
372
A Message from Elabrairah
379
Nuthanger Farm Again
386
Bigwig Stands His Ground
391
The Sky Suspended
398
Dea ex Machina
408
Hazel Comes Home
413
And Last
417
Epilogue
424
Lapine Glossary
427
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About the author (1996)

Richard George Adams was born in Newbury, England on May 9, 1920. He enrolled at the University of Oxford in 1938, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. During the war, he served with the British airborne forces in the Middle East and India. After the war, he returned to Oxford and received a degree in history in 1948. He joined the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and worked his way up over 20 years to a senior post in the clean-air section of the environmental department. He retired in 1974 to become a full-time writer. His first his novel, Watership Down, was published in 1972. It received the Carnegie Medal in Literature in 1972 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1973. His other books include Shardik, The Plague Dogs, Traveller, and Tales from Watership Down. He also wrote an autobiography entitled The Day Gone By. He died on December 24, 2016 at the age of 96.

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