Watership Down: Richard Adams - Brossura

Adams, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141354968 ISBN 13: 9780141354965

Casa editrice: Puffin Classics, 2014

Riassunto

A Puffin book - stories that last a lifetime.

Soon to be a major TV mini-series!

An epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written.

Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel knows that his sixth sense is never wrong. So, there is nothing else for it.

They must leave immediately.

And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all . . .
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Richard Adams originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults, and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972.

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L'autore:

Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire, 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 originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults, and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Richard Adams wrote many novels and short stories, including Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He died in 2016, aged 96.

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• Editore: Puffin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141354968
• ISBN 13: 9780141354965
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 656
• Disegnatore: Parkins David