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Anthony Trollope was one of the great English writers of the famous Victorian era. Trollope was prolific and his books often centered around the important political, social, and gender issues of his time. Trollope wrote the classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels as well as... Read Full 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,... Read Full Overview

Anthony Trollope's classic satirical novel.

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. The Fixed Period is Trollope's only piece of dystopian... Read Full Overview

At a time when concern over the ethics of euthanasia and the implications of a rapidly aging population are frequent topics of discussion, Trollope's only science fiction novel strikes a very modern chord. The Fixed Period , begun in 1880 when Trollope was 65, is set in the then... Read Full Overview

THE FIXED PERIOD (1882) by Anthony Trollope is an unusual early science fiction novel, originally published anonymously. It is part utopia, part dystopia, part dark satire, with overtones of modern "steampunk" and quaint technological devices. In this amazing visionary work by... Read Full Overview

In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with criticisms of... Read Full Overview

The citizens of Britannula have come up with a unique idea of having young leaders in their government by executing everyone who is above 67 years of age by a method called "deposition." No one suspects anything until some people begin approaching the dreaded age... Anthony Trollope... Read Full Overview

It may be doubted whether a brighter, more prosperous, and specially a more orderly colony than Britannula was ever settled by British colonists. But it had its period of separation from the mother country, though never of rebellion,-like its elder sister New Zealand. Indeed,... Read Full Overview

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped... Read Full Overview

Anthony Trollope was one of the great English writers of the famous Victorian era. Trollope was prolific and his books often centered around the important political, social, and gender issues of his time. Trollope wrote the classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels as well as... Read Full Overview

Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine, 'The Fixed Period' is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope. Set in the imagined South Pacific island of Britannula, the novel explores a society in which individuals are required to voluntarily end their lives at the age of 67... Read Full Overview

Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine, 'The Fixed Period' is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope. Set in the imagined South Pacific island of Britannula, the novel explores a society in which individuals are required to voluntarily end their lives at the age of 67... Read Full Overview

Britannula, off the coast of New Zealand, is a thriving republic. Three decades ago the government of energetic young men decided that compulsory euthanasia after the age of 67 would spare unnecessary suffering and state expense. But now, in 1980, some of those once-young politicians... Read Full Overview

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