Watership Down
Title: | Watership Down |
Author: | Richard Adams |
Genre: | Fantasy |
Series: | Watership Down (1) |
Copyright: | 1972 |
Ranking: | ?Unranked |
Binding: | paperback |
LibraryThing: | Title:Watership Down WorkId 1537 |
Type: | Owned |
Quote: |
What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes, Elil-Hrair-Rah, El-ahrairah - The Prince with a Thousand Enemies - is to rabbits. Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of El-ahrairah's adventures are those of Brair Rabbit. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to decieve his enemies.
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First of what later became its own genre of fantasy; (realistic) animals as protagonists, with their own culture and myths.