The Napoleon of Notting Hill
G. K. Chesterton
In a bureaucratic London of 1984 where nothing surprising happens anymore, a joke of a king revives medieval pageantry and one neighbourhood takes it seriously. A comic anti-utopia about the value of the local.
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