REVIEWS

“Quite marvelous...A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.”—New York Times Book Review

“Adams is a master of menace and suspense. I read the last hundred pages at a gulp, heart thumping.”—New York Review of Books

“Spellbinding....Marvelous....A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit, and derring-do.”—Chicago Tribune

“A classic....A great book.”—Los Angeles Times

"Adams handles his suspenseful narrative more dexterously than most authors who claim to write adventure novels, but his true achievement lies in the consistent, comprehensible and altogether enchanting civilization that he has created."—Newsweek

“I announce, with trembling pleasure, the appearance of a great sotyr.”—Times (London)

"Mr. Adams. . . has bravely and successfully resurrected the big picaresque adventure story, with moments of such tension that the helplessly involved reader finds himself checking whether things are going to work out all right on the next page before daring to finish the preceding one."—New Statesman

"If there is no place for Watership Down in children’s bookshops, then children’s literature is dead."—Economist

RICHARD ADAMS grew up in Berkshire, England, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the Civil Service. He has written many novels and short stories, including Shardik and The Plague Dogs.

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