The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Late twentieth century
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Auberon Quinn, Adam Wayne, Mr. Turnbull, Buck
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Future, 1980’s, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Wit or humor, London, Reformers, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Middle Ages, Satire, Battles, Chivalry, Boredom
- Locales: London, England
The Story:
Although they were his friends, Barker and Lambert often considered Quinn a fool, even a dangerous man, for he persisted in seeing the ludicrous where they saw only the grave. On this particular afternoon, Quinn was walking behind his two friends; as he saw the buttons on their tailcoats, he thought them very much like dragon’s eyes. Forever afterward, he thought of their backs as two dragons shuffling to the rear.
By the end of the twentieth century, such imagination was scarcely appreciated. The whole world had become orderly. The smaller nations had...
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