Napoleon of Notting Hill by G K Chesterton
A comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980s at war with its modernizing neighbors. Chesterton's splendid storytelling gifts, his love of medievalism and heroism, and his sympathies for the plight of small nations trying to remain independent are strongly in evidence. 7 illustrations by W. Graham Robertson. New Introduction by Martin Gardner.
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It's 1984 as the book opens in boring old England, dominated by peace and tranquility but soon to be farcically, then really, erupted in a civil war over street improvements and suburban London borough rights of way. May the best bureacrat, and sword player win!
I give this 3 stars *** because it is so dated, and 4 **** fo.r creative genius
-Ken
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