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:
“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“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)