N a passage in his autobiography,, Richard Adams, discussing the children’s literature he’d read, or which had been read to him, referred to C. S. Lewis’s possibly misattributed maxim: ‘A book that’s not worth reading when you’re 60 is not worth reading when you’re six.’ is not the sort of thing you’d hand a child of six to read, but it certainly passes the mature-reader test. In fact, it was originally intended for an adult audience, although the inspiration for the story grew out of the observations Adams had made about rabbits to entertain his
Watership Down
Nov 02, 2022
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