This novel mentions a man who defines cannibalism as eating a member of the British Empire, and therefore lives by eating Italian organ-grinders, in its opening chapter, which describes the people of the 20th-century playing the game of "Cheat the Prophet."
This novel mentions a man who defines cannibalism as eating a member of the British Empire, and therefore lives by eating Italian organ-grinders, in its opening chapter, which describes the people of the 20th-century playing the game of "Cheat the Prophet." A character in this novel pays forty children to hire every hansom cab in the city, so he can capture all their horses. Early in this novel, a man in a green uniform stabs his own hand, so he can use the blood to create a Nicaraguan flag. In this novel, a multi-army invasion of (*) Pump Street is foiled when all the streetlights are extinguished in the Battle of the Lamps, which causes the men of Wilfred Jarvis and Mr. Buck of North Kensington to massacre each other. A man who is randomly chosen to be King of England declares that each borough in London will be re-instated as its own city in, for 10 points, what novel in which Adam Wayne rebels against Auberon Quin for the title neighborhood's independence, the first novel of G.K. Chesterton?
This novel mentions a man who defines cannibalism as eating a member of the British Empire, and therefore lives by eating Italian organ-grinders, in its opening chapter, which describes the people of the 20th-century playing the game of "Cheat the Prophet."
The Napoleon of Notting Hill 