The Fixed Period - Brossura

Trollope, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192828428 ISBN 13: 9780192828422

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

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, 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.

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L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0192828428
• ISBN 13: 9780192828422
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
• Redattore: Skilton David