num_pages: 167
description: 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 ajoker, 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.
language: English
title: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
titlecomplete: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
characters: Auberon Quin, Adam Wayne
genres: Humor, Fantasy, British Literature, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 3407
places: London, England
publisher: Oxford University Press