Watership Down, down, down the Rabbit Hole
This is a list of all books and poems from the chapter quotes. Let's hop into all the supporting texts for fun and for a deeper understanding of the themes! I've done my best for picking books that match, but some of these are either hard to get ahold of or swamped with other stuff, they're mostly there for aesthetic purposes. The actual list is in the comments with links to all resources for free. Please use the links for the most accuracy.
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last updated September, 2026
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PART 1 - THE JOURNEY 01: The Notice Board 🔗Agamemnon by Aeschylus 02: The Chief Rabbit 🔗The World by Henry Vaughan 03: Hazel's Decision 🔗Anabasis by Xenophon 04: The Departure 🔗Hamlet by Shakespeare 05: In the Woods 🔗The Private Life of the Rabbit by R. M. Lockley 06: The Story of the Blessing of El-ahrairah 🔗A Woman Young And Old by W.B. Yeats 07: The Lendri and the River (Just a Quote) 08: The Crossing 🔗Acts of the Apostles 09: The Crow and the Beanfield 🔗De Gustibus— by Robert Browning 10: The Road and the Common 🔗The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan 11: Hard Going 🔗Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory 12: The Stranger in the Field 🔗The Private Life of the Rabbit by R. M. Lockley 13: Hospitality 🔗The Lotos-eaters by Alfred Tennyson 14: Like Trees in November 🔗Chesterfield's Letters to His Son by The Earl of Chesterfield 15: The Story of the King's Lettuce 🔗Così fan Tutte by Lorenzo da Ponte 16: Silverweed 🔗Four Postures of Death by Sidney Keyes 17: The Shining Wire 🔗The Witnesses by W.H. Auden
PART 2 - ON WATERSHIP DOWN 18: Watership Down 🔗The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake 19: Fear in the Dark 🔗Who's in the Next Room by Thomas Hardy 20: A Honeycomb and a Mouse 🔗The Epic of Gilgamesh 21: For El-ahrairah to Cry 🔗The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 22: The Story of the Trial of El-ahrairah 🔗Love for Love by Congreve 23: Kehaar 🔗Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers 24: Nuthanger Farm 🔗Child's Ballads no.119 Robin Hood and the Monk 25: The Raid 🔗The King Must Die by Mary Renault 26: Fiver Beyond 🔗Uno Harva quoted in The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell 27: "You can't Imagine It Unless You've Been There" (Just a Quote) 28: At the Foot of the Hill 🔗The Pilgrim by Walter de la Mare 29: Return and Departure 🔗Henry V by Shakespeare
PART 3 - EFRAFA 30: A New Journey (Just a Quote) 31: The Sotry of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé 🔗Prospice by Robert Browning 32: Across the Iron Road 🔗Mémoires Militaires by General Jourdan 33: The Great River 🔗The wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grhame 34: General Woundwort 🔗On War by Carl von Clausewitz 35: Groping (Just a Quote) 36: Approaching Thunder (Cannot find this Music Hall Song) 37: The Thunder Builds Up 🔗Proverbs of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris 38: The Thunder Breaks 🔗Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
PART 4 - HAZEL-RAH 39: The Bridges 🔗Dance, Boatman, Dance by by Dan Emmett 40: The Way Back 🔗Dame Hickory by Walter de la Mare 41: The Story of Rowsby Woof and the Fairy Wogdog 🔗Psalm 59 42: News at Sunset 🔗Euthyphro by Plato 43: The Great Patrol 🔗Napoleon by Walter de la Mare 44: A Message from El-ahrairah 🔗Crusader Castles by Robin Fedden 45: Nuthanger Farm Again 🔗Julius Caesar by Shakespeare 46: Bigwing Stands His Ground (Just a Quote) 47: The Sky Suspended 🔗Lark Rise by Fora Thompson 48: Dea ex Machina 🔗Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas 49: Hazel Comes Home 🔗Two Fusiliers by Robert Graves 50: And Last 🔗Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Epilogue 🔗All's Well that Ends Well by Shakespeare 🔗Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
