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Author of Watership Down dies at 96
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Wed, Dec 28, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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RICHARD Adams, the British novelist who became one of the world's best-selling authors with his first book, Watership Down, a tale of rabbits whose adventures in a pastoral realm of epic perils explored Homeric themes of exile, courage and survival, died on Saturday. He was 96.
His daughter confirmed his death, the BBC and other British news organisations reported. No other details were given.
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