 One of Penguin Books' most successful publications in the 1970s was Richard Adams's heroic fantasy "Watership Down" (1972).Evoking epic themes, it recounts the odyssey of a group of rabbits seeking to establish a new home.Another successful novel of the same era was John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1969), with a narrator who freely admits the fictive nature of his story, and its famous alternative endings.