Watership down: Richard Adams (Oneworld modern classics) - Hardcover

Adams, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178074966X ISBN 13: 9781780749662

Verlag: Rock the Boat, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams' spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved novels of all time. Set in the beautiful English countryside of the Berkshire Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a developer. Led by a stout-hearted pair of brothers, they leave the safety of Sandleford Warren in search of a safe haven and a mysterious promised land, skirting danger at every turn.

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`Watership Down is stunning, compulsive reading.' * Sunday Times * `This beautifully written and intensely moving story is the work of an extraordinary imagination.' * Sunday Telegraph * 'A great book. A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.' * Guardian * 'A masterpiece. The best story about wild animals since The Wind in the Willows. Very funny, exciting, often moving.' * Evening Standard * `An impressive, immensely readable story, held together over 400 pages by a powerful imagination that soon forbids disbelief.' * New Statesman * `Quite marvelous... A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.' * New York Times Book Review * 'This new edition is quite spectacular.' * Bill Heine, BBC Radio Oxford * `A classic... A great book.' -- Los Angeles Times 'Exquisite... a treasured keepsake for those whose original version has become tattered, and a delightful introduction to a new generation.' * The View magazine * 'A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent adventures of the rebels. Adams has a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling which will speak to readers of all ages for many years to come.' * Sunday Times * `Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit and derring-do.' * Chicago Tribune * `This lovely, lovely novel will join those classics which preserve the simpler joys... and there is the wonder of the English countryside, seen with the ground-level detail of a rabbit's eye and ear and nose, the scent and savour of short, sweet grass, the aromatic tiny wild plants, their names used like charms.' -- Monica Dickens

Reseña del editor:

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams' spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved animal stories of all time. Set in the beautiful English countryside of the Berkshire Downs, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a small band of rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a developer. Led by a stout-hearted pair of brothers, Fiver and Hazel, they leave the safety of Sandleford Warren in search of refuge, skirting danger at every turn.

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• Verlag: Rock the Boat
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 178074966X
• ISBN 13: 9781780749662
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496