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Watership Down

Classic Gift Edition with Ribbon Marker

Richard Adams author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oneworld Publications

Published:4th Oct '18

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A beautiful new hardback gift edition of the beloved Richard Adams classic Watership Down – a Christmas gift in waiting

A beautiful new hardback gift edition of the beloved Richard Adams classic Watership Down – a Christmas gift in waiting

 

A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over forty years, Richard Adams’ spellbinding classic Watership Down is one of the best-loved novels of all time, and resonates just as vividly today as it did nearly half a century ago. 

With a new four-part BBC adaptation planned for Christmas 2018, in collaboration with Netflix and voiced by stars including John Boyega, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Colman and James McAvoy, this beautiful new heritage edition will be treasured by children for years to come. Design features of this classic edition include gold foil, head and tail bands and a beautiful gold ribbon, making this the ideal gift for Christmas and beyond.

‘Stunning, compulsive reading.’ 

* Sunday Times *

‘A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.’

* Guardian *

‘Beautifully written and intensely moving... the work of an extraordinary imagination.’ 

* Sunday Telegraph *

‘Spellbinding... A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit and derring-do.’ 

* Chicago Tribune *

‘A classic... A great book.’ 

* Los Angeles Times *

‘Quite marvelous... A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.’ 

* New York Times Book Review *

‘What a relief to read of characters who have honor and courage and dignity, who will risk their lives for others, whose love for their families and friends and community is enduring and effective.’

* New York Review of Books *

‘A classic yarn of discovery and struggle.’ 

* New York Times
  • Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
  • Winner of Carnegie Medal.

ISBN: 9781786070272

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 33mm

Weight: unknown

528 pages