Napoleon of Notting Hill

Part comedy, part adventure, part social commentary, this astonishing tale of tomorrow explores the essence of human nature

Published in 1904, G. K. Chesterton’s debut novel is set eighty years in the future. Technology and social mores remain the same, but the England of 1984 boasts a government in which ineffectual kings are selected at random from an otherwise apathetic populace that has “lost ...