Watership Down Mass market paperbound - 1975
by Richard Adams
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Reviewers largely describe Watership Down as a vivid, high-stakes adventure whose mature, sometimes brutal episodes belie its reputation as a children’s book. Many praised Adams’s knack for making the rabbits feel authentically animal while sustaining rich characterization, along with the embedded folklore of El?ahrairah and pointed social and ecological themes—especially the authoritarian Efrafa storyline. The prose and close-to-nature detail earned admiration, and the audiobook narration drew praise. Common complaints included a slow start, stretches of heavy landscape detail and Lapine terminology, and dated gender treatment; a minority found it dull or did not finish. For many, though, the bond with Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and Kehaar and the emotionally charged finale made it memorable.
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MacMillan published the first Edition U.S. hardcover copy in 1972. Characterized by tan cloth binding and tan paper over boards, the spine and cover are stamped in gilt.
The first UK edition was published by Rex Collings, London, in 1972. Characterized by brown cloth wrapping and folding map, as well as a yellow dust jacket.
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- Title Watership Down
- Author Richard Adams
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Avon Books, New York
- Publication date 1975
- ISBN 9780380002931 / 0380002930
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 6.94 x 4.36 x 1.14 in (17.63 x 11.07 x 2.90 cm)
- Reading level 880
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Fantastic fiction, Rabbits - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 73006044
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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