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- Author: Richard Adams
- Genre: Satire, Fantasy
- Publication date: November, 1972
- Publisher: Scribner
- Pages: 496 (Scribner paperback edition)
- ISBN 0743277708 (Scribner paperback edition)
- Awards: Carnegie Medal, The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
- Adaptations: Watership Down (film), Watership Down (TV series), Watership Down play (play)
- Rejected by thirteen publishers
- Began as a story to his daughters
- Sold over 50 million copies worldwide
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Watership Down is an anthropomorphic fantasy novel by British author Richard Adams about a group of rabbits forced to leave their home and found a new warren.
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Plot Synopsis
After a young rabbit has a vision of his home warren destroyed, he and a small band of rabbits leave to search for a safe place to found a new home. They face harrassment from the militant caste of their old home and the dangers of the unknown, including rabbits from other warrens. Finally, they arrive at Watership Down, where, after a battle with another warren, they find peace. Adams' story follows the well-established formula of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth and also draws upon Ronald Lockley's The Private Life of the Rabbit a naturalist's study of actual rabbits.Critical Reception
Despite popular acceptance and best-seller status in both the United Kingdom and the United States, Watership Down is not without its detractors. Feminists criticize the depiction of females in the book as misogynist. Despite Adams' claim of using the behavior of real-life rabbits as source material, his invention of a male-driven, warrior-dominated rabbit society is actually the opposite of how rabbit social structures exist in the wild. The National Review said, "it has about the same intellectual firepower as Dumbo."
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Watched Watership Down last night. It really falls flat compared to the book, but I would love to see a modern update of it.
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@robcorr have you read watership down? It's like that.
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