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- The book was The Napoleon of Notting Hill. It was written in 1904.
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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
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.
The book was The Napoleon of Notting Hill. It was written in 1904. The action of the story takes place 80 years into the future, or 1984. Ironically, some two decades after this book was written, Chesterton gave a break to a young writer by publishing his first essay in G.K.’s Weekly.
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“The Napoleon of Notting Hill” is a novel written by G.K. Chesterton that was first published in 1904. The book is set in a future London in 1984, where the government is impersonal and the class system and attitudes of the time remain unchanged.
Introduction. (1904) Dedicated To Hilaire Belloc. For every tiny town or place. God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face. And see them tangled in a tree: You saw a moon from Sussex Downs, A Sussex moon, untravelled still, I saw a moon that was the town's, The largest lamp on Campden Hill. Yea; Heaven is everywhere at home.
First published in 1904, The Napoleon of Notting Hill was Chesterton's first novel. It has been called the best first novel by any author in the twentieth century. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.
Analysis and discussion of characters in G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill
