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Richard Adams


Born
in Newbury, Berkshire, England, The United Kingdom
May 09, 1920

Died
December 24, 2016

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Adams was born in Newbury, Berkshire. From 1933 until 1938 he was educated at Bradfield College. In 1938 he went up to Worcester College, Oxford to read Modern History. On 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain announced that the United Kingdom was at war with Germany. In 1940 Adams joined the British Army, in which he served until 1946. He received a class B discharge enabling him to return to Worcester to continue his studies for a further two years (1946-48). He took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and of Master of Arts in 1953.

He was a senior civil servant who worked as an Assistant Secretary for the Department of Agriculture, later part of the Department of the Environment, from 1948 to 1974. Since 1974, following publication of h ...more

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Watership Down (Watership D...
4.09 avg rating — 504,412 ratings — published 1972 — 309 editions
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The Plague Dogs
3.89 avg rating — 8,862 ratings — published 1977 — 73 editions
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3.52 avg rating — 4,573 ratings — published 1974 — 73 editions
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4.02 avg rating — 2,488 ratings — published 1984 — 41 editions
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3.53 avg rating — 2,135 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions
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Traveller
3.92 avg rating — 1,273 ratings — published 1988 — 27 editions
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The Iron Wolf and Other Sto...
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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
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“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
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“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
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March 2016 New School Group Read

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
 
  25 votes, 12.6%

1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages
 
  24 votes, 12.1%

1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages
 
  20 votes, 10.1%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
 
  19 votes, 9.5%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
 
  14 votes, 7.0%

 
  14 votes, 7.0%

1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.0%

1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.5%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.0%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

 
  2 votes, 1.0%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

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