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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 ...
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Dec 27, 2016 · Richard Adams, the British novelist who became one of the world’s best-selling authors with his first book, “Watership Down,” a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic ...
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.
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.
Richard Adams has 88 books on Goodreads with 976925 ratings. Richard Adams’s most popular book is Watership Down (Watership Down, #1).
Dec 24, 2016 · Richard Adams. Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College. In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History.
Nov 1, 2005 · The 50th anniversary edition of Richard Adam’s timeless classic, the tale of a band of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—“a classic yarn of discovery and struggle” (The New York Times). A worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of all time.
May 8, 2020 · Over the past decade, the image of Watership Down ’s cartoon rabbits have been revived for a new generation in meme culture. Nearly 50 years have passed, and Richard Adams' cautionary tale remains starkly relevant. It’s quite amazing to think it was almost never published at all.
