Title:
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Author:
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
ISBN:
9780192831453
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 167 p. ; 19 cm.
Series:
The World's classics
Series Title:
The World's classics
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Summary
Summary
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 the stage for arguments about the nature of human loyalties, glorifying the little man, and attacks on big business and the monolithic state.