The Unbroken Web [Hardcover]

Richard Adams (Author), Yvonne Gilbert (Illustrator), Jennifer Campbell (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 1988

First American Edition (stated),1980 by Crown Publishers

Product Details

• Hardcover: 141 pages
• Publisher: Crown Publishers; 1st ed edition (December 12, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517542315
• ISBN-13: 978-0517542316
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #908,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Richard George Adams (born 9 May, 1920) is an English novelist who is best known as the author of Watership Down.

He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters, and they insisted he publish it as a book. When Watership Down was finally published, it sold over a million copies in record time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Watership Down has become a modern classic and won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972.

Richard Adams currently lives in Hampshire, England.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UK Version of Adams' Iron Wolf, July 31, 2006

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Deanna Weber Prine (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unbroken Web (Hardcover)

This is a nice compilation of stories by Richard Adams. I ordered both this title and "The Iron Wolf" by Mr. Adams only to find that they're both the same book. I suspect the "Unbroken Web" was the UK title for marketing reasons--the title "Iron Wolf" probably had more appeal in the US.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful collection of tales, October 23, 1997

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[e-mail] (Champaign, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Unbroken Web (Hardcover)

I count myself lucky to own this book- sad to see that this (and Shardik!!) are hard to find. Beautiful illustrations, and writing that will draw you in. As I recall, this is not really for young children (but then, I don't think watership down was for young children either). If you find it, pick it up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The oral tradition frozen in time, October 19, 2009

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Nathaniel Craig "The Neutral Christ" (South Bay, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unbroken Web (Hardcover)

I love this book!

Richard Adams is a wonderful storyteller.

In the Unbroken Web (aka the Iron Wolf) he frames his re-telling of many different classic tales from around the world in the guise of how a story is actually told: starting with people who have time on their hands, a story teller takes up the torch, they create a segue to intrigue the listener, then spinning the yarn.

Delightful. :)

N±C