![]() ![]() Of the rest of them, little, if anything, is ever heard. Watership Down, however, was not the apex of the author’s career – indeed, it was only the first of those twenty-odd novels. The novel is one of the classics of fantasy – and when it was written it joined The Lord of the Rings and Jonathan Livingston Seagull as the only fantasy novels to make it to the mainstream bestseller lists, as the #2 best-selling fiction book of 1974. Richard Adams has written nearly twenty novels or short story collections one of them, Watership Down, is the best-selling novel ever published by Penguin, and has been voted one of the fifty favourite books of the British public, as well as spawning endless adaptations, including a classic film that has received numerous accolades – one of the fifty greatest British films, one of the hundred greatest animations, one of the twenty greatest tearjerkers, and a Hugo Award, among others. were free to go where they might… Free as flies, free as autumn leaves or as wind-borne ashes. He who builds a barn knows that rats will come ![]() – Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” ![]() “How else but through a broken heart may the Lord Christ enter in?” ![]()
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