In Fiction
The battle was dramatized in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with the inclusion of some fictional events and modifications to actual ones. In the novel, the battle was divided into two stages, with the first at Xiaopei (present-day Pei County, Jiangsu) and the second at Xiapi (present-day Pizhou, Jiangsu).
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
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—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)