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A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London.
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Cool, plot-driven, warm and nostalgic.
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- Author
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- First published
- 1904
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Constable, Penguin Books Ltd., Franklin Classics Trade Press
- Editions
- 454
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Russian
- ISBN
- 9798539428891
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**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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