Prior to the novel’s publication, Adams’ was turned down by four publishers and three agents who declined to take on his fantastical work. A band of rabbits from the aforementioned community plot their leave and in seeking out a new home are met with tyranny, religious fanaticism, and predators of varying shape and size. Roughly 600 pages, depending on edition, Watership Down focuses on a warren that’s about to be taken over by man, as they build, develop, and from the perspective of those living in the community, colonize. Watership Down, though technically pitched as a children’s novel, is far denser than what kids in the 1970s may have been accustomed. Adams likely never thought the stories he told to his young daughters would become an internationally acclaimed novel, but then again, few thought the novel would stir any type of excitement for children or adults when he first sought publication. Since its publication in 1972, Richard Adams’ novel Watership Down has become a staple of the fantasy genre, with adaptations for film, radio, television and, with a new miniseries produced by Netflix and BBC One, a version for the streaming era.
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