![]() The book sold 887 copies and received baffled reviews. ![]() Trollope was almost 67 when he wrote 'The Fixed Period'. At age 67 each citizen will be deposited with much fanfare in a 'college', like a very nice resort, to live stress-free, until age 68, when he will be euthanized. As he says, "It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do." And so, after much legislative back and forth, Britannula sets a fixed period in its Constitution. The island's president, John Neverbend, has given much thought to the problem of aging. ) Britannula, near New Zealand, was graciously allowed by England to become a Republic. (Brit-an-NOO-la, Brit-an-NOO-la rhymes with. ![]() The story takes place on an invented island - Britannula. Imagine: Trollope, known for his plots of Victorian class and manners, writes, in 1882, a novel set 100 years in the future. Jenn, the group moderator, called it a dystopian piece of Victorian fiction in the key of Jonathan Swift's satire in Gulliver's Travels. ![]() An angle of repose, and the books topple, bouncing down the hill, and I bend and pick up one at my feet: 'The Fixed Period'. But all they did was push the TBR mountain higher and higher. And there've been some interesting selections for group reads, quality works just off the beaten track. So, I joined the Literary People discussion group here when it was first created, armed as usual with the best intentions but, typically for me, lacking in participation. ![]()
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