![]() ![]() One's enough for any lifetime!”), Adams continues to write. Though Watership Down was far and away Adams’ most successful book (which he acknowledged, telling an interviewer in 2007, “You can't expect another miracle like Watership Down. The book went on to win the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Prize, to sell more than 50 million copies worldwide, and to launch Adams’ second career. In 1972, Collings printed as many books as he could afford, a run of 2,500. His decision may have been mad, but it paid off. ![]() Collings wrote to a friend at the time, “I’ve just taken on a novel about rabbits, one of them with extra-sensory perception. After at least seven rejections, author Richard Adams, then 54 and a civil servant, was on the verge of self-publishing the novel when it was finally picked up by Rex Collings, a one-man publishing outfit in London. Like a lot of classic books, Watership Down almost didn’t make it to print. ![]()
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