The Fixed Period (World's Classics)

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192828428 ISBN 13: 9780192828422

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1993

This novel is an exercise in Swiftian irony combined with a futuristic love story set in the 1980s - which is quite uncharacteristic of Trollope. This book should be of interest to general readers, Trollope fans, readers interested in Victorian fiction, pre-Orwellian political satire, and futuristic writing of the 19th century.

About the Author:

As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better-paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns.