The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Name: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Author: G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton's first novel: in a London of 1984 grown grey and bureaucratic, a boy who loves his neighbourhood is made king by a joke and takes the joke seriously, and the little streets of Notting Hill go to war for their honour. A fantasy of local patriotism and the lost romance of small things.

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