Series
Watership Down
Richard Adams · 1 novel · 1 novelette · 18 short stories · 1 collection · 1972–1996
Watership Down is Richard Adams's 1972 novel following a group of rabbits who flee the destruction of their warren and cross the English countryside of Hampshire in search of a new home, developing over the journey a full rabbit culture of language, proverbs, and mythology. Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- El-ahrairah(7 works)
- El-ahrairah & Rabscuttle(4 works)
- Hazel(8 works)
Map
Watership Down at the centre, 3 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s20
Shape
1 novel · 1 novelette · 18 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasysurvivalcountryside & villagecontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 21 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Watership Downdarkest · calmest
- Tales from Watership Downbrightest · most intense