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    The Napoleon of Notting Hill ** The Man Who Was Thursday ** The Return of Don Quixote (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 1136) (English Edition)

    Por G. K. Chesterton

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    This volume contains 3 of the best novels by the amazing English thinker G.K.Chesterton, one of the smartest people of the 20th century.

    THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL, the best known novel by Chesterton besides his Father Brown series, is set in a London of the future. The drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results...

    The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council...

    In THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE, Michael Herne is a librarian at Seawood Abbey, an estate owned by Lord Seawood. When Lord Seawood's daughter and some of her friends want to put on a play called "Blondel the Troubadour," the librarian is asked to play the part of a medieval king. Herne not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume. He remains in character, much to the befuddlement and consternation of the other players...
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