The Fixed Period (The World's Classics)
The Fixed Period (The World's Classics)
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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.
The Fixed Period (The World's Classics),Anthony Trollope,David Skilton,Oxford University Press, USA,0192828428,19th Century English Novel And Short Story,Australia,Fantastic fiction,Fantasy fiction,Fiction,General,History,History: American,Killing of the elderly,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,United States - 20th Century,Fiction / Classics
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