This book grew out of stories that a loving father, Richard Adams, told to his daughters Juliet and Rosamund. This book gave birth to a new literary genre. After seven publishers rejected the manuscript, it was published. Since then, The Hill Dwellers has sold more than 50 million copies and was included in the list of the 100 best books of all time, published in England at the beginning of the 21st century. The Hill Dwellers is a truly epic novel that critics have compared to the Aeneid and the Odyssey. The Hill Dwellers is the story of captive adventurers who are forced to leave their dying city and embark on a long, dangerous journey. And none of them knows where it should end. The heroes of Adams' novel have their own mythology, language, customs and way of life. They tell each other fairy tales and dig underground shelters. But they are rabbits, not people, transformed by the author’s imagination into animals. This amazing novel is able to win the hearts of not only adults, but also children. “The Dwellers of the Hills” is one of the best books written in the 20th century, occupying a worthy place on a par with “The Little Prince” by A. de Saint-Exupéry, “The Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by R. Bach, “Dandelion Wine” R. Bradbury and “Flowers for Algernon” by D. Keyes. The novel is published in a revised and expanded version.