Description
Published in 1882, this extraordinary novel–an exercise in Swiftian irony combined with a love story in a futuristic 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.
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