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 race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 11)
“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
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