The Plague Dogs - Adaptations

Adaptations

Like its predecessor Watership Down, Martin Rosen directed and adapted The Plague Dogs into an animated feature film, which was released in 1982. In a stark contrast to the addendum in subsequent editions of the book—which describes the dogs' finding sanctuary from the hunters and being cleared of carrying the plague—the film concludes as the first edition of the book proper, with the dogs swimming out to sea. After swimming for a while they eventually come to the conclusion they imagined the island. They are about to give up and drown however, one of them claims to directly see the island and they struggle on. It then ends with them disappearing into the mist, supposedly heading to the island. In the films credits an island can be seen in the distance however, it is unclear if they make it.

Works by Richard Adams
Novels
  • Watership Down (1972)
  • Shardik (1974)
  • The Plague Dogs (1977)
  • The Girl in a Swing (1980)
  • Maia (1984)
  • The Bureaucats (1985)
  • Traveller (1988)
  • The Outlandish Knight (1999)
  • Daniel (2006)
Short stories
  • "The Story of El-ahrairah" (1980)
  • "The Black Rabbit of Inle" (1980)
  • "Leopard Aware" (2010)
Short story collections
  • The Iron Wolf and Other Stories (1980, or The Unbroken Web)
  • Tales from Watership Down (1996)
Poetry
  • The Tyger Voyage (1976)
  • The Ship's Cat (1977)
  • The Legend of Te Tuna (1982)
Non-fiction
  • Nature Through the Seasons (1975)
  • Nature Day and Night (1978, with Max Hooper)
  • Voyage Through the Antarctic (1982, with Ronald Lockley)
  • A Nature Diary (1985)
  • The Day Gone By (1990)

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