The Fixed Period
| By: | Anthony Trollope |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781539765912.0 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781609779566 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Published in 1882, this extraordinary novel--an excercise in Swiftian irony combined with a love story in a furturistic setting--is entirely uncharacteristic of Trollope's usual drawing room conversations and hunting scenes. Set in the 1980s, The Fixed Period describes an imaginary, antipodean ex-colony governed by a President who views himself as a benefactor of the human race, Orwellian double-speak and gunboat diplomacy. This is Trollope's strangest and most chilling novel.