Watership Down
Lapine survival saga
Watership Down is a 1972 novel by Richard Adams about a group of rabbits who flee their threatened warren to establish a new home.
The book created an elaborate rabbit mythology and language, and became a beloved classic despite initial rejection by publishers.
An animated film adaptation followed in 1978.
The title refers to the hill in Hampshire, England, where the rabbits settle.
- rabbitsBurrowing lagomorphs with long ears
- warrenInterconnected underground tunnels
- rabbit holesEngrossing diversionary pursuits
- hazelWarm brownish-green hue
- burrowAnimal's dug dwelling
fiver · dig · hide · running away · beast fable · oral tradition · fiction · adventure · band of brothers · earth · bigwig · novel · anthropomorphism · creation myths · storytelling · fields · survival · epic
- animal storiesanimal fables, animal fable, fish tales, fable, trickster tales
- British ClassicsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- literary animalsAnimal Farm, white whale, Charlotte's Web, Moby Dick, White Fang
- nature booksanimal stories, White Fang, Walden, field guides, The Lorax
- allegoriesallegory, fable, parable, Animal Farm, Pilgrim's Progress
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Watership DownThe Road
Paved travel surface
1984 · Animal Farm · Lord of the Flies · Brave New World · A Clockwork Orange
Watership DownBlade Runner
One who retires replicants
Metropolis · 1984 · The Matrix · concrete jungle · cityscape
Watership DownThe Jungle Book
Colonial-era animal fables
White Fang · Cujo · apex predator · hunter · carnivore
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