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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Author: G. K. Chesterton, W. Graham Robertson (Illustrator)
A comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980s at war with its modernizing neighbors. Chesterton’s splendid storytelling gifts, his love of medievalism and heroism, and his sympathies for the plight of small nations trying to remain independent are strongly in evidence. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486265513
ISBN-10: 048626551X
Publication Date: 2/1/1991
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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This book if more profound than "Gulliver" and "Animal Farm" and as controversal as "Godot." Having survived all the twaddle in this narrative, an academic might surely invent a host of underlying metaphors to justify publication of this book. For a more modern comparison, look to some of the more obscure parodies of "Monty Python." Certainly not for the casual reader.
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