Global InformationWatership Down information
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Richard Adams |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English, Lapine |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Rex Collings |
Publication date | November 1972 |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback & audiobook) |
| Pages | 413 (first edition) plus maps[1] |
| Awards | Carnegie Medal (literary award)
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize California Young Reader Medal |
| ISBN | 0-901720-31-3 |
| OCLC | 633254 |
Dewey Decimal | 823/.9/14 |
| LC Class | PZ10.3.A197 Wat[2][3] |
| Followed by | Tales from Watership Down |
Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down), encountering perils and temptations along the way.
Watership Down was Richard Adams's debut novel. It was rejected by several publishers before Collings accepted the manuscript;[4] the published book then won the annual Carnegie Medal (UK), annual Guardian Prize (UK), and other book awards. The novel was adapted into an animated feature film in 1978 and, from 1999 to 2001, an animated children's television series.[5][6] In 2018, a drama of the story was made, which both aired in the UK and was made available on Netflix.
Adams completed a sequel almost 25 years later, in 1996, Tales from Watership Down,[a] constructed as a collection of 19 short stories about El-ahrairah and the rabbits of the Watership Down warren.[7][8][9]
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- ^ Sally Eckhoff (26 November 1996). "Tales from Watership Down". Salon. Archived from the original on 7 December 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
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