Napoleon of Notting Hill (Chesterton - Warbler ed.)

Author: G. K. Chesterton

ISBN: 9781965684566

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Set in a whimsically unchanged 1984, G. K. Chesterton imagines a future where democracy has faded and the city’s boroughs are ruled by randomly selected, ceremonial kings. When the irreverent Auberon Quin is crowned, he amuses himself by decreeing elaborate medieval pageantry for the city’s districts—an act most take as a joke. All, that is, except Adam Wayne, the earnest provost of Notting Hill, who embraces Quin’s mockery as a call to arms and inspires his neighbors to defend their patch of London with heroic zeal.