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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

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Chesterton imagines future London as a comic battlefield of local patriotism, romance, and absurd political seriousness.

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

The Napoleon of Notting Hill begins in a dull future London, then erupts when local boroughs are treated like medieval city-states. G. K. Chesterton turns play, heraldry, civic loyalty, and mock war into a lively defense of imagination against bureaucratic sameness.

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G. K. Chesterton died in 1936; the work was first published around 1904. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English edition.

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

THE NAPOLEON _of_ NOTTING HILL

_By_ GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

_TO HILAIRE BELLOC_

_For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a tree: You saw a moon from Sussex Downs, A Sussex moon, untravelled still,

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The largest lamp on Campden Hill._

_Yea; Heaven is everywhere at home The big blue cap that always fits, And so it is (be calm; they come To goal at last, my wandering wits), So is it with the heroic thing; This shall not end for the world's end, And though the sullen engines swing, Be you not much afraid, my friend._

_This did not end by Nelson's urn Where an immortal England sits-- Nor where your tall young men in turn Drank death like wine at Austerlitz. And when the pedants bade us mark What cold mechanic happenings Must come; our souls said in the dark, "Belike; but there are likelier things."_

_Likelier across these flats afar These sulky levels smooth and free The drums shall crash a waltz of war And Death shall dance with Liberty; Likelier the barricades shall blare Slaughter below and smoke above, And death and hate and hell declare That men have found a thing to love._

_Far from your sunny uplands set

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The lit straight streets shot out and met The starry streets that point to God. This legend of an epic hour A child I dreamed, and dream it still, Under the great grey water-tower That strikes the stars on Campden Hill._

G. K. C.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02I saw a moon that was the town's,
  3. 03I saw the dream; the streets I trod
  4. 04BOOK I
  5. 05CHAPTER I--_Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy_
  6. 06CHAPTER II--_The Man in Green_
  7. 07CHAPTER III--_The Hill of Humour_
  8. 08BOOK II
  9. 09CHAPTER I--_The Charter of the Cities_
  10. 10I am so dignified that I come out quite ill."
  11. 11CHAPTER II--_The Council of the Provosts_
  12. 12CHAPTER III--_Enter a Lunatic_
  13. 13I turn back?"
  14. 14BOOK III
  15. 15CHAPTER I--_The Mental Condition of Adam Wayne_
  16. 16CHAPTER II--_The Remarkable Mr. Turnbull_
  17. 17I--"
  18. 18CHAPTER III--_The Experiment of Mr. Buck_
  19. 19BOOK IV
  20. 20CHAPTER I--_The Battle of the Lamps_
  21. 21I am confoundedly sorry for him."
  22. 22CHAPTER II--_The Correspondent of the Court Journal_
  23. 23CHAPTER III--_The Great Army of South Kensington_
  24. 24I knew.
  25. 25BOOK V
  26. 26CHAPTER I--_The Empire of Notting Hill_
  27. 27CHAPTER II--_The Last Battle_
  28. 28CHAPTER III--_Two Voices_

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