The Fixed Period - Couverture rigide

Trollope, Anthony

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1870587596 ISBN 13 : 9781870587594

Editeur : Trollope Society, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Trollope Anthony

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Fixed Period is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope published in 1882. Set in Britannula, an island of Australia. The president has decreed that all citizens reaching the age of sixty-seven are to enter a 'college.' There, they will be prepared for death at age sixty-eight. The first candidate for this euthanasia, Gabriel Crasweller, loses his enthusiasm for the 'fixed period' scheme as his own term approaches. Rescue is provided by the British navy, which returns Britannula to the rational rule of the Empire. Britannula is a former British Crown Colony which demanded, and was granted, independence from Great Britain in the mid-20th century. Its 250,000 inhabitants have, with few exceptions, retained British law and customs, and also her currency. Britannula is a thriving agrarian society whose wealth is mainly based on sheep farming and the wool trade. Its capital, Gladstonopolis, is named after 19th century British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Trollope Society
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1870587596
• ISBN 13: 9781870587594
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 154