Watership Down (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Adams
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Animal fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: The South English countryside
- Principal Characters: Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Kehaar, General Woundwort, Prince El-Ahrairah
- Genres: Long fiction, Fable, Adventure, Fantasy, Animal tale
- Subjects: Freedom, 1970’s, Family or family life, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Politics, Nature, Escapes, Leadership, Revolutions, Rural or country life, Friendship, Human race, England or English people, Oppression, War, Home, Adventure, Progress, Modernization, Animals, Land settlement, Rabbits
- Locales: England
The Novel
Watership Down, Richard Adams’ highly praised fantasy, begins in a rabbit warren, Cowslip, on the South English downs. A young rabbit, Fiver, has premonitions of danger and warns his brother Hazel. Together with several other of the younger rabbits, they begin to consider leaving Cowslip. Fiver’s psychic power is established, but his warning is difficult for the others to heed: as rabbits, they are so much bound by tradition that an irrevocable break is not easy to contemplate. Fortunately for them, their final decision to leave the old warren is thrust...
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