The Fixed Period
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About This Book
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.
Chapters (29)(click to expand)
- THE FIXED PERIOD
- ANTHONY TROLLOPE
- First published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1882
- CONTENTS
- VOLUME I. CHAPTER I.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER II.
- GABRIEL CRASWELLER.
- CHAPTER III.
- THE FIRST BREAK-DOWN.
- CHAPTER IV.
- JACK NEVERBEND.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE CRICKET-MATCH.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE COLLEGE.
- END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
- VOLUME II. CHAPTER VII.
- COLUMBUS AND GALILEO.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE "JOHN BRIGHT."
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE NEW GOVERNOR.
- CHAPTER X.
- THE TOWN-HALL.
- CHAPTER XI.
- FAREWELL!
- CHAPTER XII.
- OUR VOYAGE TO ENGLAND.
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