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Watership Down

Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams. 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…

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Author
Richard Adams
Genre
Fantasy
Publication date
November 1972
Publisher
Rex Collings
Awards
Carnegie Medal · Guardian Children's Fiction Prize · California Young Reader Medal
Dewey Decimal
823/.9/14

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related to Rabbits · 75
Watership Down → Acorn, After Fiver, An, As, At Sandleford, Bigwig, Blackberry, Blackbird's Song, Bluebell, Buck, Buckthorn, Chief Hazel, Chief Rabbit, Cowslip, Cowslip's, Cowslip's Warren, Dandelion, Described, Efrafa, Fiver
related to The Hero, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid · 44
Watership Down → Adams, Adams's, Aeneas, Aeneas's, Aeneid, BC, Bigwig's, Blackberry's, Bluebell's, By, Campbell's, Carl Jung's, Cassandra, Cowslip's Warren, Dandelion's, Fiver, Hazel, Hazel's, Homer's Odyssey, Joan Bridgman's
related to Theatre · 26
Watership Down → Barsotti, Chicago, Chris Daley, Directed, Holmquist, In, It, John Hildreth, Joseph Traynor, Katie McLean Hainsworth, Lifeline Theatre, London, Lyric Hammersmith, Mandy Walsh, Matthew Burgess, Melly Still, Paul, Richard Simons, Rona Munro, Scott
related to Part 4: Hazel-rah · 24
Watership Down → As, Blackavar, Blackberry, Bob, Captain Campion, Dandelion, Downriver, Efrafa, Efrafan, Efrafans, Fiver, Following, General, Groundsel, Hazel, Labrador, Nuthanger Farm, Once, Owsla, They
related to Film · 21
Watership Down → Adams, Although, Art Garfunkel, Bluebell, Bright Eyes, Harry Andrews, Holly, In, John Hurt, Martin Rosen, Nigel Hawthorne, Released, Richard Adams, Richard Briers, Rosen's, Roy Kinnear, Simon Cadell, Strawberry, The, Though
related to Musical · 20
Watership Down → Aerin O'Malley, An, Anneliese Garner, Artist Pick, Audience Pick, Bee Davis, Claire Chenoweth, Golden Lanyard Awards, Hawken Paul, Laura Marie, Mason Tacke, Melancholics Anonymous, Meredith Enersen, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Rachel Ropella, Samantha Miller, The, Timothy Kelly, Venue Pick, Watership Down Enterprises Limited
related to Part 3: Efrafa · 18
Watership Down → Bigwig, Blackavar, Blackberry, Efrafa, Efrafan, Efrafan Owsla, Hazel, He, Holly's, Hyzenthlay, Hyzenthlay's, Kehaar, River Test, Test, Watership, While, With, Woundwort
related to Non-rabbits · 17
Watership Down → According, Adams, After, Bob, Efrafan, Efrafans, General Woundwort's, Hazel, He, Kehaar, Never, Norwegian Resistance, The Mouse, The Nuthanger Farm Labrador, This, While, World War II
related to Reception · 17
Watership Down → Adams, Beverly Langston, Bonanza, Dumbo, He, If, Kathleen, Keith Mano, National Review, New Statesman, Newsweek, Nicholas Tucker's, Peter Prescott, Rothen, The Economist, There, This
related to Criticism of gender roles · 16
Watership Down → Adams, Fiver, Hazel's, He, In, Lanes, Life, Male Chauvinist Rabbits, New York Times Book, Nicholas Tucker, Puffin Modern Classics, Rabbit, Review, Ronald Lockley's The Private, Selma, The

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Watership DownAwardsCarnegie Medal1.00infobox
Watership DownAwardsGuardian Children's Fiction Prize1.00infobox
Watership DownAwardsCalifornia Young Reader Medal1.00infobox
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Watership DownFollowed byTales from Watership Down1.00infobox
Watership DownGenreFantasy1.00infobox
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Watership DownLanguageEnglish, Lapine1.00infobox
Watership DownLC ClassPZ10.3.A197 Wat1.00infobox
Watership DownMedia typePrint (hardback, paperback & audiobook)1.00infobox
Watership DownOCLC6332541.00infobox
Watership DownPages413 (first edition) plus maps1.00infobox
Watership DownPublication dateNovember 19721.00infobox
Watership DownPublication placeUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
Watership DownPublisherRex Collings1.00infobox
Watership Downis aadventure novel by English author Richard Adams0.90text
Watership Downis apeaceful habitat0.90text
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