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The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984.. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology nor changes in the class system or attitudes of the time.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- 1904
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a short book, and is exquisitely written, reflecting the post-Victorian London of this alternative reality, stiff and uniform and lacking in poetry and humour. It rolls with a frantic mania, with characters wonderfully evoked by the force of their personalities, in the almost childish vibrancy of their emotions.
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Other articles where The Napoleon of Notting Hill is discussed: G.K. Chesterton: The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), a romance of civil war in suburban London, was followed by the loosely knit collection of short stories, The Club of Queer Trades (1905), and the popular allegorical novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908). But the most successful…
Chesterton University. Lecture 6: The Napoleon of Notting Hill. When Chesterton was going to write his first novel, he had 10 shillings in his pocket. He went to Fleet Street, got a shave, ordered a large lunch for himself including a bottle of wine, and then, broke but “fortified,” went to his publisher, outlined the book he had in mind ...
- Dale Ahlquist
Nov 7, 2019 · The Napoleon of Notting Hill is, like nearly all of Chesterton's fiction (apart from the Father Brown stories, which impose the formal discipline of detective fiction to his quarrelsome imagination, and are all the better for it) a phantasie, which I spell that way to distinguish its quasi-medieval allegorical meaning from mere humdrum fantasy, which can and indeed ought to be read purely by ...
Aug 11, 2024 · The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Michael Collins, who led the fight for Irish independence from British Rule, is known to have admired the book. The novel is also quoted at the start of Neil Gaiman 's novel "Neverwhere". IN THE DARK ENTRANCE THERE APPEARED A ...
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), a fantasy about civil strife between different London localities, was typical of his serio-comic narratives. Although he continued to write serious verse he also branched into a brilliant vein of comedy. Magic, his first attempt at drama, was a theatrical triumph in 1913.
