In Fiction
Hope Grant is featured in George McDonald Fraser's Flashman series of novels. In the novels Flashman describes Grant as being one of the most formidable soldiers of his day and the deadliest fighter alive as well as being an eccentric and 'unnerving' character. He speaks in barked one-word sentences.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)