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The Napoleon of Notting Hill is G. K. Chesterton's first novel. Published in 1904, it is set at the end of the twentieth century. London is still a city of gas lamps and horse-drawn vehicles, but democratic government has withered away, and a representative ordinary citizen is simply chosen from a list to be king.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is G. K. Chesterton's first novel. Published in 1904, it is set at the end of the twentieth century. London is still a city of gas lamps and horse-drawn vehicles, but democratic government has withered away, and a representative ordinary citizen is simply chosen from a list to be king.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill. G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936). While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought ...
Far from your sunny uplands set. I saw the dream; the streets I trod. The lit straight streets shot out and met. The starry streets that point to God. This legend of an epic hour. A child I dreamed, and dream it still, Under the great grey water-tower. That strikes the stars on Campden Hill .--G. K. C.
14 de set. de 2007 · The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Publication date 1914, c1904 Publisher
1 de fev. de 1991 · The Napoleon of Notting Hill is G. K. Chesterton's first novel. Published in 1904, it is set at the end of the twentieth century. London is still a city of gas lamps and horse-drawn vehicles, but democratic government has withered away, and a representative ordinary citizen is simply chosen from a list to be king.
- G. K. Chesterton
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