Appearances in Fiction
There is a depiction of General "Elphy Bey" Elphinstone and the retreat from Kabul in George MacDonald Fraser's historical novel Flashman (1969), the first volume of the Flashman Papers series of novels.
Elphinstone is also briefly referenced in David Weber's science fiction novel, In Death's Ground (1997), the third novel in that author's Starfire series of novels.
Read more about this topic: William George Keith Elphinstone
Famous quotes containing the words appearances and/or fiction:
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)