In Fiction
Fairfax is a pivotal character in the 2003 Film "To Kill A King", as well as in Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction Simon, being portrayed as inspiring and fair. He is also a central character in Sutcliff's novel "The Rider of the White Horse", and Howard Brenton's 2012 play 55 Days.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)