Watership Down is the tale of a group of rabbits who leave their borrow and set off, eventually making a new one on the so-named down.
Obviously it is a metaphor for the struggle between the left and right wing in modern politics. However, this is sometimes quite cleverly hidden. For example the author Richard Adams attempts to disguise this by saying in his introduction “this is just a story I made up for my daughters and has no more meaning than that.”
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