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One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.
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Complete summary of G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
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- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Chapter I—Introductory Remarkson The Art of Prophecy
- Chapter Ii—The Man in Green
- Chapter III—The Hill of Humour
- Chapter I—The Charter of The Cities
- Chapter Ii—The Council of The Provosts
- Chapter Iii—Enter A Lunatic
With Seven Full-Page Illustrations by W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON and a Map of the Seat of War REV. WILLIAM J. GORMLEY, C. M. JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON & NEW YORK. MDCCCCIV Copyright in U.S.A., 1904 William Clowes & Sons, Limited, London and Beccles.
The human race, to which so manyof my readers belong, has beenplaying at children's games fromthe beginning, and will probably doit till the end, which is a nuisance for the fewpeople who grow up. And one of the gamesto which it is most attached is called "Keepto-morrow dark," and which is also named (bythe rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt)"C...
Very few words are needed to explainwhy London, a hundredyears hence, will be very like it isnow, or rather, since I must slipinto a prophetic past, why London, when mystory opens, was very like it was in those enviabledays when I was still alive. The reason can be stated in one sentence.The people had absolutely lost faith in revolutions.All revol...
"In a little square garden of yellow roses,beside the sea," said Auberon Quin,"there was a Nonconformist ministerwho had never been to Wimbledon.His family did not understand his sorrow orthe strange look in his eyes. But one daythey repented their neglect, for they heard thata body had been found on the shore, battered,but wearing patent leather b...
Lambert was standing bewilderedoutside the door of the King's apartmentsamid the scurry of astonishmentand ridicule. He was justpassing out into the street, in a dazed manner,when James Barker dashed by him. "Where are you going?" he asked. "To stop all this foolery, of course,"replied Barker; and he disappeared into theroom. He entered it headlong...
The King got up early next morningand came down three steps at atime like a schoolboy. Havingeaten his breakfast hurriedly, butwith an appetite, he summoned one of thehighest officials of the Palace, and presented himwith a shilling. "Go and buy me," he said,"a shilling paint-box, which you will get, unlessthe mists of time mislead me, in a shop at...
The King of the Fairies, who was,it is to be presumed, the godfatherof King Auberon, must have beenvery favourable on this particularday to his fantastic godchild, for with theentrance of the guard of the Provost of NottingHill there was a certain more or less inexplicableaddition to his delight. The wretchednavvies and sandwich-men who carried the...
Critical Essays. Analysis and discussion of characters in G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
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Jan 1, 1991 · The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1991 - Fiction - 163 pages. The Napoleon of Notting Hill is G. K. Chesterton's first novel. Published in...
