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Watership down original book6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Like Rowling and Tolkien, two other British writers who had a good grounding in classical literature and who were inspired by tales they told their children, Richard Adams based it on stories he related to his daughters, and thirteen publishers rejected it before it was finally picked up by a small house too poor to even pay him an advance. Watership Down was published in the UK 1972 and has much faded from public view, I think, though Stephen King has mentioned it more than once in his novels. There are a few books like that: they’ve dropped out of sight and memory, but their adherents revere them and reread them, constantly. People get this look in their eye when the book comes up: it’s like they are welcoming you into a secret brotherhood or something. ![]() ![]() It’s a curiosity of Watership Down that everyone who has ever read it (at least, those I have met) seems to believe it is a discovery all his or her own. ![]()
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