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The Fixed Period (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope . Introduction. It was first published in six instalments in Blackwood's Magazine in 1881–82 and in book form in 1882. In the same year there also appeared US and Tauchnitz editions of the novel. There were no further editions until 1981. [1] .
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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23 mar 2018 · The Fixed Period (1882), Trollope’s last novel, is an oddity among Trollope’s other works of social realism documenting contemporary life. Set in 1980 in the fictional republic of Britannula, the novel is everything a Trollope novel shouldn’t be: futuristic, speculative, with a central ‘concept’ rather than a series of ...
The fixed period : a novel by Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Publication date 1882 Publisher Edinburgh : Blackwood Collection dulutl; duke_libraries; americana Contributor
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- Anthony Trollope
- 1882
On an imaginary island near Australia over which the English had renounced their sovereignty, a government had been established, one of whose leading principles was the doctrine of the “Fixed Period.”. This law sought to solve the problem of old age, by “depositing” all inhabitants at the age of sixty-seven in a “college” where they ...
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...
