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The Napoleon of Notting Hill, like so many Chesterton novels, deftly straddles the fence between humor and philosophy. The place is London, in the far-future year of 1984. Inexplicably, not too much has changed since the turn of the century—except that the king is chosen at random. Things quickly take a turn for the worse when the people randomly select an imbecile who only cares about a good joke.
With the new prankster king in place, the novel continues on with surprisingly action-packed breeziness, exploring themes of identity, patriotism, politics, and government.
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Fiction, Classic Literature, Science Fiction, Politics and government, English fiction, Political fiction, Fantastic fiction, London (england), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, political, Fiction, fantasy, general, Translations into Russian, Fiction, general, Fantasy fiction, Notting Hill (London, England) -- FictionPeople
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January 1999, Paulist Press
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
1914, John Lane: The Bodley Head, John Lane Company
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1912, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd.
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1906, John Lane Company, John Lane: The Bodley Head
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22 March 1904, John Lane: The Bodley Head
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A witty and surreal novel of the future.
In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London.
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