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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

G K Chesterton

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English
Penguin
08 October 2024
G. K. Chesterton's wild and whimsical debut novel, set in a future embattled London

London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England's ruler is randomly selected, and this year it's Auberon Quin, a clerk with an odd sense of humour. Quinn mandates that each borough of London become an independent neo-medievalist state, complete with costume and armoury. The city bears his practical joke with varying levels of patience - except Adam Wayne, an earnest young man from Notting Hill, who takes his sword in hand and the joke deathly seriously.

Originally published in 1904, G. K. Chesterton's deliciously eccentric novel remains a masterpiece of satire.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   146g
ISBN:   9780241698631
ISBN 10:   0241698634
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an artist, philosopher, columnist, arts critic and prolific writer. A very large man of 6'4"" and 21 stone, Chesterton also had a 'colossal genius' according to his friend George Bernard Shaw - and his work, particularly The Man Who Was Thursday and the Father Brown stories, has had an astounding impact on English fiction. Chesterton died of heart failure in his home in 1936, and was given a Requiem Mass in Westminster Cathedral."

Reviews for The Napoleon of Notting Hill

More modern than the moderns, more medieval than the medievalists, funnier than all of them—reading Chesterton today is like watching someone give a speech of unimpeachable common sense from the bridge of a departing UFO * The Atlantic *


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