The Fixed Period Author:Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (Editor) 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... more » views himself as a benefactor of the human race, Orwellian double-speak and gunboat diplomacy. This is Trollope's strangest and most chilling novel.« less