num_pages: 207
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.
language: English
title: The Fixed Period
publisher: University of Michigan Press