Napoleon of Notting Hill (Wordsworth Collection)
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From the back cover:
"Set in a future of stultifying dullness, the ordinary citizen Auberon Quin is chosen from a list to be King. His whimsical desire to inspire local patriotism in the London boroughs seems an outrageous and hilarious prank as he lectures to an antiquarian society on the significance of London place names, and design uniforms of medieval style and vast discomfort for the provosts of the boroughs. But Adam Wayne, the provost of Notting Hill who has no sense of humour at all, wears his red robes with pride and his fanatcisim soon has the city plunged into savage street warfare."
I remember this book best for Chesterton's description of the game of Cheat the Prophet - which is how the world of stultifying dullness comes about.
"Set in a future of stultifying dullness, the ordinary citizen Auberon Quin is chosen from a list to be King. His whimsical desire to inspire local patriotism in the London boroughs seems an outrageous and hilarious prank as he lectures to an antiquarian society on the significance of London place names, and design uniforms of medieval style and vast discomfort for the provosts of the boroughs. But Adam Wayne, the provost of Notting Hill who has no sense of humour at all, wears his red robes with pride and his fanatcisim soon has the city plunged into savage street warfare."
I remember this book best for Chesterton's description of the game of Cheat the Prophet - which is how the world of stultifying dullness comes about.
