Bridges Publishing edition
A joke king remakes London into warring city-states, until one dreamer takes the masquerade more seriously than anyone expects.
First published 1904
Speculative & Satirical Classics collection
Britain
About this book
In a future London that looks suspiciously like Chesterton’s own Edwardian city, England’s monarchy has become a bland lottery of figureheads—until Auberon Quin, a whimsical clerk with a genius for mischief, is chosen as king. Amusing himself with heraldry, costumes, and mock-medieval civic rituals, Quin decrees that London’s boroughs shall behave like proud independent nations.
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