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Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist whose works include Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at Oxford before serving in the British Army during World War II.
May 13, 2024 · Richard Adams (born May 9, 1920, Wash Common, Berkshire [now West Berkshire], England—died December 24, 2016) was an English author known for reinvigorating the genre of anthropomorphic fiction, most notably with the beloved children’s book Watership Down (1972; film 1978), a novel that presents a naturalistic tale of the travails of a group of wild European rabbits seeking a new home.
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"Lapine" is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for the novel, where it is spoken by the rabbit characters. The language was again used in Adams's 1996 sequel, Tales from Watership Down, and has appeared in both the film and television adaptations. The language fragments in the books consist of a few dozen distinct words, used ...
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Dec 27, 2016 · Richard George Adams was born on May 9, 1920, in Newbury, England, one of three children of Evelyn George Beadon Adams, a doctor, and the former Lilian Rosa Button. He attended boarding school and ...
Nov 1, 1972 · Richard Adams shows a detailed knowledge of the natural world in which the rabbits live, specifically the English countryside. "Watership Down" is an actual hill in Hampshire, near the village of Kingsclere, just a few miles away from the area in Berkshire where Richard Adams grew up.
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Dec 27, 2016 · Richard Adams, who has died aged 96, was a civil servant who wrote a best-selling novel about rabbits based on a story he told his children. He also wrote other books, including Shardik and The Plague Dogs, and was president of the RSPCA.
Dec 27, 2016 · Richard Adams, who has died aged 96, was the author of one of the most successful books of the 1970s. Published in 1972, Watership Down, Adams’s story about a colony of rabbits travelling across ...
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