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  Amazon.ca: Tales from Watership Down: Books: Richard Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The original Watership Down is one of those wonderful works that appeals to readers both young and old.
As readers of Watership Down (1974) will recall, Adams reached classic heights of inspired storytelling in that fable of the animal kingdom, performing a finely calibrated juggling act between the real and the imagined.
El-ahrairah's stalwart companion Rabscuttle joins him for four tales in Part Two, while the remaining stories, which are devoted to Hazel and his rabbits, have the continuity of a novel.
www.amazon.ca /Tales-Watership-Down-Richard-Adams/dp/0613376714   (1444 words)

  
 Watership Down - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watership Down is the title of Richard Adams's first and most successful novel: since its initial publication, it has never been out of print.
Watership Down tells the story of a group of rebellious rabbits who — against the wishes of their Chief Rabbit — escape from their threatened warren.
Korean: 워터십 다운의 토끼 (Woteosip Daunui Tokki, "Rabbits of Watership Down") and 워터십 다운의 열한 마리 토끼 (Woteosip Daunui Yeolhan Mari Tokki, "Eleven Rabbits of Watership Down")
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 SparkNotes: Watership Down: Context
Watership Down has been viewed as a statement about nature, an attempt to give us a glimpse into the beautiful yet removed world of the woods and grasslands.
At times, Watership Down is almost pleading in tone, suggesting that we still have time to stop our destruction of animals' homes before it is too late—an idea that appeals to many.
However Watership Down is read—as a political, social, or environmental critique or simply as a book about the search for a home and life—it is undoubtedly greatly influenced by the state of the natural world in the twentieth century and the role that humanity must play within that world.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/watership/context.html   (560 words)

  
 Tales From Watership Down : Richard Adams
Nearly a quarter century after the publication of Watership Down, one of the century's best-loved works of imaginative literature--the superb storyteller Richard Adams re-enters that unique and special world to tell us about the lives of the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort.
Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits.
Finally, in the principal part of the book, we are told eight enchanting stories about the rabbits of the Down-- Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions---including the impact on the warren of the obsessive doe Flyairth, and the appointment of Hyzenthlay as a female Chief Rabbit and partner to Hazel.
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 BookPage Fiction Review: The Tales from Watership Down
Tales from Watership Down is its sequel and begins with items "omitted" in the previous book and concludes with further information on the future of this unlikely band of misfit bunny heroes.
In the first part of Tales from Watership Down, the rabbits are telling unrelated stories in their warren much as young Scouts do around a campfire.
The Watership Down volumes together are allegories comparable to Winnie-the-Pooh, Animal Farm, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
www.bookpage.com /9611bp/fiction/talesfromwatershipdown.html   (503 words)

  
 Watership Down
Allegories aside, Down is engaging and satisfying, and pulls off the same amazing trick that the novel did--you'll forget that this is a story about rabbits.
Set in England's Downs area, we see these courageous rabbits overcome struggle, grief, turmoil and a host of natural predators, including man himself, in order to find what they could percieve as their own space within the world.
I sat down for the first time at 33 years old, to watch the movie Watership Down.
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 NewStandard: 1/26/97   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The rabbits are chatting together, recalling some of their great adventures of the previous year: how they had left the Sandleford warren and had first come to Watership Down and dug their new warren, only to realize that there was not a single doe among them.
Half the pleasure of a summer morning was lost to them, and they couldn't pick out their food in the grass until they actually bit into it.
"Tales From Watership Down," though not as compelling as the original, comes to a satisfying conclusion with the final tales of the book.
www.s-t.com /daily/01-97/01-28-97/b06li063.htm   (478 words)

  
 Tales from Watership Down
Tales from Watership Down was a follow-up to Richard Adams' highly successful novel about rabbits, Watership Down, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1996.
It consists of a number of short stories of rabbit mythology, followed by several chapters featuring many of the characters introduced in the earlier book.
Tales from Watership Down was generally rather poorly received by fans of Watership Down, many of whom had expected a longer and more conventional sequel, and the book is now out of print in Britain, although still sold in some other countries such as the United States.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/t/ta/tales_from_watership_down.html   (136 words)

  
 Watership Down — What’s it all about?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Watership Down as a story is firmly closed, with no loose ends, nor on-going story lines to pick up on.
Tales from Watership Down was a real disappointment to many lovers of Watership Down, which is saying something considering it took us all by surprise, and we had no rosy expectations to judge it by.
In Tales Adams decided to put that right, and quite out of the rabbit’s character, he made Hyzenthlay sort of equal to Hazel, while simultaneously getting rid of the male in her life, showing her as a lone rabbit with kittens and a career.
www.mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk /watershp/wdwiab5.htm   (790 words)

  
 Review of "Tales from Watership Down"
Watership Down is a classic story about a band of rabbits who escape the destruction of their home warren and brave many dangers and hardships to find a place to live where they can be safe and prosper.
Tales from Watership Down tells a little more about what happened after the battles were over, when the new warren came into a period of peacefulness and cooperation with other warrens.
The stories about the Watership Down warren and the characters from the first book are a bit more satisfying, but I would have liked a single story with a beginning, middle, and end, rather than a series of vignettes.
www.flowerfire.com /seized/reviews/tales_from_watership_down_sara_lipowitz.html   (476 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - 'Watership Down' - the Book and Film
Watership Down is a big hill located in the North Wessex Downs in Hampshire, UK.
It was immortalised in 1972 by Richard Adams with the publication of his novel Watership Down.
Towards the end, when the dog is being led to Watership Down, it is Blackberry and Dandelion who take it to the Down.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/a260353   (943 words)

  
 TFWD Book Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tales From Watership Down is broken into three parts.
Among the short stories are how rabbits got their sense of smell, the story of the fox in the water, and the hole in the sky.
The third and final tale of Tales From Watership Down, continues the story of the Watership Down rabbits who were featured in Mr.
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 Powell's Books - by
Adams is the author of several other novels and volumes of poetry, including "Tales from Watership Down, the much-anticipated follow-up to his first novel.
However, the second battle General Woundwort wages is a premeditated attack on Watership Down with the intent to kill the rabbits or force them to return to Efrafa.
One of the most acclaimed, best-loved novels of the 20th century, here is the remarkable epic adventure of courage and survival, as a hardy band of rabbits flee the destruction of their fragile community to face overwhelming adversity in pursuit of a glorious dream called "home".
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-0380002930-0   (1523 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Watership Down: Books: Richard Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Consequently the basic story of "Watership Down" is the ancient quest for home, although in this case it is a new home that represents a wild rabbit's idea of utopia.
But Watership Down was a book that was just my taste, creative, animal-associated, and filled with the characters that make fairy tales seem boring.
Watership Down is about a group of rabbits who live together in their warren.
www.amazon.com /Watership-Down-Richard-Adams/dp/0380002930   (2555 words)

  
 Watership Down - Moviefone
Rating: PG Synopsis: Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will...
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Watership Down web sites A comprehensive site for information on the novel Watership Down, it's sequel Tales From Watership Down, and the Watership Down movie.
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 Watership Down by Richard Adams | LibraryThing
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This tale was a popular animated film when I was a kid, and it wasn't until I was an adult that I read the novel.
I hesistate to say that this is a story about rabbits, because "Watership Down" is so much more.
www.librarything.com /isbn/0380002930   (382 words)

  
 Author Information: Richard Adams :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
Adams wrote his first novel, Watership Down, while still a civil servant in 1972.
In 1991, he published an autobiography, The Day Gone By, and five years later published the sequel to Watership Down, entitled Tales From Watership Down (1996).
Watership Down has remained Adams's most successful novel, popular with both adults and children.
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 Powell's Books - Watership Down by Richard Adams
"Watership Down creates a world where the heroes are rabbits, where the weapons are claws and cunning, where survival depends on trust, and where good ultimately prevails over evil.
When referring to the need for the rabbits, who are all bucks, to digburrows at Watership Down, Blackberry says, "There's nothing to stop us having them, except that buck rabbits won't dig.
Richard Adams is the author of many bestselling novels, including Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs, The Girl in a Swing, Maia, and Traveller, as well as several works of nonfiction, including his autobiographical The Day Gone By.
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 TALES from Watership Down | Buy cheap Book with low price
Watership Down is amazing; great character development and a plot which had me on the edge of my seat near the end!
Well, 'Tales' is set up in three separate parts, and you don't even really get any type of follow-up to Watership until the third part of the book, and for me it just didn't have anywhere near the oomph that the original story did.
For someone who considers Watership Down to be one of the greatest books I have ever read, it took a long time for me to pick up this continuation.
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 Tales From Watership Down - Book Review
"Tales From Watership Down is almost as remarkable as its prelude, Watership Down."
Tales From Watership Down is the sequel to Watership Down.
Watership Down is the best book ever written.
www.smartgirl.org /reviews/books/285704.html   (143 words)

  
 Watership Down by Richard Adams, a fantasy bestseller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Watership Down is set in Berkshire, in southern England.
Hazel leads the rabbits to safety high on Watership Down.
The brave Watership Down rabbits risk their lives breaking out does and bringing them to freedom.
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 Tales From Watership Down
Section One of the book gives additional tales of El-ahrairah, including The Fox in the Water and The Hole in the Sky, both mentioned briefly in the novel when the companions rest on their way to Efrafa.
As well, two rather nonsensical stories are told to provide a glimpse into what rabbits talk about when not relating tales of their prince.
Included are stories about Hyzenthlay taking over as the warren's Chief Rabbit for a time, the arrival of a strange rabbit who reeks of man and as such by rabbit law must be put to death, the overcrowding of the warren, and Campion's attempts to restart Wide Patrols within Efrafa.
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 Amazon.com: Tales from Watership Down: Books: Richard Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tales of Watership Down reads like an abandoned follow up to the classic original that was salvaged into this disjointed collection of hobbled short-stories when Richard Adams either died or couldn't come up with anything better.
Tales from Watership Down is a pale ghost of the original book.
On its own, it is a bad read; next to the original Watership Down, it is a steaming pile of garbage.
www.amazon.com /Tales-Watership-Down-Richard-Adams/dp/0679451250   (2046 words)

  
 Watership in winter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tales from Watership Down tries to be a winter book, perhaps rather less successfully.
I put together the first version of this website before Tales from Watership Down was published and so almost all the photos I presented then were of summer scenes.
This is the snow-covered Watership Down taken in the last light of a January afternoon in 1985.
www.mayfieldiow.freewire.co.uk /watershp/waters28.htm   (667 words)

  
 Watership Down E-mail Discussion List
Created in May of 1998 by Michael Passmore and now moderated by Jeffrey Verzak, the Watership Down discussion group is a place where you can go to share your thoughts about this amazing novel as well as the other works of Richard Adams.
This group is used by people of varying ages and tastes, and for a discussion of Watership Down, profanity is simply not needed.
Anything relating to Watership Down including (but not limited to) discussions about the novel, animated film, animated series, Tales From Watership Down, possible subplots and allegories, how it affected you, and the like.
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 Watership Down   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come.
It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community...and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called "home."
Watership Down is a remarkable tale of exile and survival, of heroism and leadership...the epic novel of a group of adventurers who desert their doomed city, and venture forth against all odds on a quest for a new home, a sturdier future,
isbn.nu /0380002930   (651 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Richard Adams - Tales from Watership Down at Epinions.com
Shortly after I discovered the wonderful story Watership Down, I was wandering through my used bookstore when low and behold, there was a display of the recently released Tales From Watership Down.
The main disappointment for me was that the book was primarily rabbit tales, with several stories about their fold hero and a few tales made up by the rabbits.
Having read both of Adams' Watership books, in fact, inspired me to purchase another of his animal works, The Plague Dogs, which I am reading now and will review when I've finished it.
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 Watership Down : Characters
The Chief Rabbit of the Sandleford Warren.Although he had successfully led the warren for a number of years,he is unwilling to listen when Fiver foresees the destrustion of it.He chooses to do nothing ; the fact that causes his own death,as well as that of all the rabbits in the warren,save a few.
A member of the Sandleford Owsla,later head of the Watership Down Owsla.He is a big fellow,noted for the tuft of fur on the top of his head,from which he took his name.
He is rescued from the warren during Bigwig's raid and proves himself capable later after the shock of his mistreatment wears off.
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