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"Shardik is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms-allegory, epic, myth-resonating in the caverns of the readers' unconscious . . . It is an exciting story, the adventures compelling."
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Grave, earnest, epic and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Richard Adams
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 550
- Publisher
- Allen Lane in association with Rex Collings, Blackstone Audiobooks, Penguin
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- English, Spanish, German
- ISBN
- 9783548201214
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“EVEN IN THE DRY HEAT of summer's end, the great forest was never silent.”
Richard Adams was born in Berkshire, England, in 1920, and studied history at Bradfield and Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling and award-winning *Watership Down*, his first book.
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