Tales from Watership Down was a follow-up to Richard Adams' highly successful novel about rabbits, Watership Down, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1996. It consists of a number of short stories of rabbit mythology, followed by several chapters featuring many of the characters introduced in the earlier book. Richard George Adams (born May 9, 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for two novels with animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. ... Genera Pentalagus Bunolagus Nesolagus Romerolagus Brachylagus Sylvilagus Oryctolagus Poelagus Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. ... For other uses, see Watership Down (disambiguation). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from μυολογείν mythologein to relate myths, from μύος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λόγος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and...

The book is in three parts: the first consists of five traditional tales of El-ahrairah and two more modern rabbit stories; the second contains four episodes recounting events that befell El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle on their return from visiting the Black Rabbit of Inlé; and the third contains eight chapters dealing with the Watership warren itself in the months following the events of the original book. El-ahrairah is a fictional character, the rabbit folk hero in Richard Adamss Watership Down and the protagonist of nearly all of the rabbits stories. ...

Like its predecessor, Tales from Watership Down features a Lapine glossary and epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter. Lapine is an artificial language constructed by Richard Adams and spoken by the fictional rabbits of his novel Watership Down. ... In literature, an epigraph is a quotation that is placed at the start of a work or section that expresses in some succinct way an aspect or theme of what is to follow. ...

Tales from Watership Down was generally rather poorly received by fans of Watership Down, many of whom had expected a longer and more conventional sequel, and the book is now out of print in Britain, although still sold in some other countries such as the United States. A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ...

Continuity Issues

Though the book mostly retains the continuity of the original, there are a couple of minor continuity issues between the two.

• Towards the end of the original, it is suggested Fiver has become more withdrawn due to a major event involving his mental powers. However, in the sequel, he acts basically the same way he did throughout most of the original.
• There is also a scene in which some young does laugh. In the original, laughing is an unheard concept that alarms them.

Important New Characters

• Flyairth - A doe who was the Chief Rabbit of Thinial, but kicked out due to her obsession with the white blindness. First seen in visions by the Efrafan does before they escaped with Bigwig, she now threatens to undermine the stability and leadership of Watership Down.
  
• Sandwort - A young buck who is rude and disrespectful, until something makes him change his ways.
  

• Coldsfoot, a sad depressed buck, who was taken prisoners by the Efrafans when he was three (rabbit years) old, and claims his friend was killed by a ghost, who later becomes colorful due to the comfort of Fiver.

Editions

British editions

• ISBN 0-09-180166-4 (Hutchinson, hardback, 1996)
• ISBN 0-14-025899-X (Penguin, paperback, 1997)
• ISBN 0-14-038245-3 (Puffin, paperback, 1997)

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US editions

• ISBN 0-679-45125-0 (Random House, hardback, 1996)
• ISBN 0-380-72934-2 (Avon, paperback, 1998)

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Translations

• Spanish: Cuentos de la Colina de Watership