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Napoleon of Notting Hill (Wordsworth Collection)
Napoleon of Notting Hill - Wordsworth Collection Author:G. K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Chesterton's first novel (1904), is set in London at the end of the twentieth century. It is still a city of gaslamps and horse-drawn carriages, but democratic government has withered away. When a government clerk, something of an aesthete and even more of a joker, is simply chosen from a list to be king, he sets th... more »e stage for arguments about the nature of human loyalties, glorifying the little man, and attacks on big business and the monolithic state.« less