The Battle in Fiction
The battle features in several historical novels and dramas:
- The Marsh King by C. Walter Hodges
- The Raven and the Cross, a children's television serial
- The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton (who also wrote about the battle in Ethandune, collected in Alarms and Discursions)
- The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell.
Read more about this topic: Battle Of Edington
Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or fiction:
“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)
“Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer’s role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.”
—J.G. (James Graham)