The Napoleon of Notting Hill (G. K. Chesterton)

After a rapturous re-read of Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, I circled back to a first read of his first novel, 1904's The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Interesting note: the first chapter mentions that the book takes place 80 years in the future...making it 1984...make of that what you will. The book is a sort-of speculative fiction that is sort-of …