The Fixed Period (Easyread Large Edition)

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781458705235
Publisher:	ReadHowYouWant
Publication date:	02/17/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	265 KB

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific, and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-known books collectively comprise the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire and includes the books The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, and others. Trollope wrote nearly 50 novels in all, in addition to short stories, essays, and plays.

Editorial Reviews

The of Brittanula before they face mandatory euthanasia in Trollope's only science fiction novel, likely influenced by Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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