The Napoleon of Notting Hill

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 OR CHANGES IN THE CLASS SYSTEM OR ATTITUDES. IT POSTULATES AN IMPERSONAL GOVERNMENT NOT DESCRIBED IN ANY DETAIL BUT APPARENTLY CONTENT TO OPERATE THROUGH A FIGUREHEAD KING RANDOMLY CHOSEN.About the AuthorGilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton was an English writer lay theologian poet philosopher dramatist journalist orator literary and art critic biographer and Christian apologist.