Capuchin Classics: The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Paperback)

from denmoir

I am ambivalent about Chesterton. He has great ideas and his stories begin with promise but somewhere along the line I lose interest. It is as though he promises insights and delivers the obvious.

from wdwilson3

This slim volume combines alternative history, satire, and fantasy. Written in 1904, it posits a future 100 years in the future in which there is no international strife. Everything is so stable that, essentially, nothing has changed - everyone goes about their life with no thought of change, pro...

from LeslitGS

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is Chesterton's crack at a futuristic tale, even if he cheats. The 1984 London described in his story is much of the same London of the era of its writing in 1904. There are still horse-drawn hansom cabs and a few of the omnibuses make appearances. Men are wearing fro...

from john257hopper

A rather odd, but amusing novel set in a future London (1984, ironically, 80 years after the novel's publication), where democracy has given way to a cynical system whereby a random individual is chosen to be king for a period of time. The story is full of wry observations, reflecting the author'...

from MrsLee

A strange little idea. A lament about the dullness our civilised lives bring on, and a proposition put forth as an alternative. I'm sure there is much the author was trying to say that I do not understand, and some things which I think I understand, he may not have had in mind at all. For instanc...