Richard Adams Knihy

Příběh skupinky králíků, kteří se vydávají na dalekou cestu za novým domovem a za svobodou. Celý příběh je o skupince odvážlivců, kteří vytuší smrtelné nebezpečí a opustí svůj domov. Vydají se na dalekou cestu do neznáma. Spousty nepřátel, mnoho nebezpečných situací a jejich vlastní bezbrannost v nelítostném a drsném světě jim nedodá ani chvilky klidu. Když se přátelé dostanou na místo, které by mohlo být jejich novým domovem, zjistí, že i přes zdánlivé bezpečí se jedná o smrtelnou past. Když se jim podaří uprchnout a vybudovat nový domov, čekají je další obtíže, jaké si jen stěží dovedeme představit. Ale hrdinové příběhu i přes vlastní bezbrannost vítězí díky své prohnanosti nad každým nebezpečím a nepřítelem.

Po čtyřiadvaceti letech se Richard Adams vrátil ke svým králičím hrdinům známým z jeho celosvětově oblíbeného románu „Daleká cesta za domovem“. Pokračování známého románu Daleká cesta za domovem přibližuje králičí mytologii a králičí pohádky a vypráví o nových dobrodružstvích, která komunitu potkala po slavné bitvě s generálem Čistcem.

The adventures of a couple of travelling tigers.

An outstanding collectoin of animal stories by well-known authors. This collection is enchanting, amusing, and memoriable for readers of all ages

Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation, and terror, of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call ''the Tod,'' the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are labeled ferocious man-eating monsters, setting off a great dog hunt that is later intensified by the fear that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague.

This collection of 27 never-before published stories from an impressive cast—Roddy Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stuart O'Nan, among others—sets out to shift genre paradigms. The overarching theme is fantastic fiction, or fiction of the imagination, with fantasy being used in the most broad-sweeping sense rather than signaling the familiar commercial staples of elves, ghouls, and robots. Consequently, the collection's offerings run a wide gamut. In Joe Hill's Devil on the Staircase, an Italian boy commits a crime of passion and subsequently meets an emissary of Satan. In Jodi Picoult's Weights and Measures, a young couple who have just lost their daughter struggle to hold their marriage together as they both start noticing strange changes taking place. Chuck Palahniuk's The Loser features a college kid on acid as a contestant on a game show, and in Kurt Andersen's Human Intelligence, a geologist meets an explorer from another planet who has been studying humans for the past 1,600 years. The range of voices and subjects practically guarantees something for any reader, but the overall quality is frustratingly variable: most stories are good, some aren't, and few are exceptional —Publishers Weekly

Richard Adams's Watership Down was a number one bestseller, a stunning work of the imagination, and an acknowledged modern classic. In Shardik Adams sets a different yet equally compelling tale in a far-off fantasy world. Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept up by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik--Messenger of God--only to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear's divinity.

A romantic relationship between psychics is threatened by a murderous secret in the woman's past

In this volume, Richard Adams has collected together nineteen enchanting folk-tales from almost as many parts of the world - from Europe to China and from Polynesia to the Arctic Circle. Each has a special magic, an aura that is sometimes beautiful and fascinating, sombre and frightening, or exciting and colourful. But what unites all these stories is the essential quality of folk-lore, something that transcends the boundaries of nations, of custom and time, that gives them their permanence and universality of appeal. "Authors need folk-tales," Richard Adams says, "in the same way as composers need folk-song. They're the headspring of the narrator's art, where the story stands forth at its simple, irreducible best. They don't date, any more than dreams, for they are the collective dreams of humanity." In order to preserve as far as possible the immediacy and directness of authentic folk story-telling, each of the nineteen tales is presented as being told by an imagined narrator to one or more hearers at a particular time and place, sometimes past, sometimes present. However, the reader is never told the identity either of the teller or his hearers, but is left free to infer both them and the occasion solely from the narrator's own words. This original technique adds a novel dash of piquancy to this fine collection.