Watership Down
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Watership Down was the title of Richard Adams's first and most successful novel, named after a hill in the north of Hampshire in England where Adams grew up. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Rex Collings Ltd in 1972.
It tells the story of the escape of a group of rabbits from their threatened home and their subsequent adventures. Although Adams has always stated that the book was intended to be a children's story, many fans see the book as a political allegory by World War II veteran Adams, attacking fascism as Animal Farm attacked Stalinism.
Many years after the original novel Adams wrote a sequel of sorts, the short story anthology Tales from Watership Down.
Watership Down has become a modern classic and in 1978 was made into an acclaimed animated film, directed by Martin Rosen. In 1999, an animated television series under the same name was produced with Martin Rosen as coproducer.
Editions
UK editions
- ISBN 0140306013 (Puffin, paperback, 1973)
- ISBN 0140039589 (Penguin, paperback, 1974)
- ISBN 0140364536 (Puffin Modern Classics, paperback, 1993)
- ISBN 0141186666 (Penguin Modern Classics, paperback, 2001)
US editions
- ISBN 0606050809 (prebound, 1975)
- ISBN 0380004283 (paperback, 1976, Anniversary Edition)
- ISBN 0380002930 (mass market paperback, 1976)
- ISBN 1568492502 (library binding, 1994, reprint)
- ISBN 068483605X (hardcover, 1996)
- ISBN 0783880812 (hardcover, 1997, Large Type Edition)
- ISBN 0060935456 (paperback, 2001)
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